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Broadcast News
1987
Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work in it. Brooks' intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an ambitious producer at the network news division's Washington D.C. branch, who is calm under .. Read more
| Starring | William Hurt, Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks, Robert Prasky |
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| Director | James L. Brooks |
| Genres | Drama |
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It's Drop the Dead Donkey, stateside, as the self-serving natures of three Washington-based TV journalists form the focus of James L Brooks's sweet-and-sour comedy of superegos pursuing serious news, but ending up with spurious glamour. Undervalued William Hurt, as a newscaster who can bring phoney tears to his eyes, is one apex of a romantic triangle; the underused Albert Brooks, as a seasoned investigator, is another. But it's Holly Hunter, as the hard-nosed producer and object of their attentions — long before her Oscar-winning role in The Piano — who really provokes the sorrow and the pity of lives at the mercy of their careers, forever info-surfing and -searching.
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Writer/director Brooks is knowing about the wisecracks, back-stabbings, political shifts, and innate decencies of the... read more on Time Out
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Mildly satirical look at the world of television journalism that slips into romantic comedy.
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Broadcast News - give us 133 minutes and we'll give you the world
People talk about how TV news has introduced the 'soundbite' culture - nothing over 15 seconds, nothing complicated.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Witty and fun, but overlong
I have fond memories of this film. Evidently these have become a little rose-tinted over the years. 'Broadcast News' is a clever, witty and engaging ... more
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Is American TV Journalism really like this?
Scary! If this is based on real American TV Journalism, then it goes a long way to explaining the dire quality of their news output!
Nevertheless, a ... more -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Is American TV Journalism really like this?
Scary! If this is based on real American TV Journalism, then it goes a long way to explaining the dire quality of their news output!
Nevertheless, a ... more -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Witty and fun, but overlong
I have fond memories of this film. Evidently these have become a little rose-tinted over the years. 'Broadcast News' is a clever, witty and engaging ... more
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Broadcast News - give us 133 minutes and we'll give you the world
People talk about how TV news has introduced the 'soundbite' culture - nothing over 15 seconds, nothing complicated.
But Broadcast News is ... more -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Witty and fun, but overlong
I have fond memories of this film. Evidently these have become a little rose-tinted over the years. 'Broadcast News' is a clever, witty and engaging ... more
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Is American TV Journalism really like this?
Scary! If this is based on real American TV Journalism, then it goes a long way to explaining the dire quality of their news output!
Nevertheless, a ... more -
Quality film
Very amusing take on what drives our news producers. Oh, and it certainly isn't a desire to make sure the public are educated
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A VERY DATED ROMANTIC COMEDY.
BROADCAST NEWS by JAMES L. BROOKS is in my opinion an over-rated and horribly dated romcom. It was released in 1987 and looks it! Even for the mid-to-late ... more
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- MAXIMILIAN from BURNHAM
- Posted 12 Jun 2006 14:14
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Massively disappointing
I thought this had a great cast and at some stage something I read or saw must have made me want to see it so it ended up on my rental list - what a ... more
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Just the best story around
Simply a wonderful movie with an excellent script, beautifully directed by James L Brooks with an excellently timed cameo by Jack Nicholson. Shame there was ... more
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Broadcast News
A romantic comedy where the theme is Integrity - usually you have to go back to the thirties and forties to see that. The morality of the news, its ... more
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1 out of 6 people found this review helpful
funny and clever
this is a very funny film indeed. the characters are all dysfunctional and all too aware of it, which leads to some scathing observations on modern life and ... more
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Critics' reviews (3)
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It's Drop the Dead Donkey, stateside, as the self-serving natures of three Washington-based TV journalists form the focus of James L Brooks's sweet-and-sour comedy of superegos pursuing serious news, but ending up with spurious glamour. Undervalued William Hurt, as a newscaster who can bring phoney tears to his eyes, is one apex of a romantic triangle; the underused Albert Brooks, as a seasoned investigator, is another. But it's Holly Hunter, as the hard-nosed producer and object of their attentions — long before her Oscar-winning role in The Piano — who really provokes the sorrow and the pity of lives at the mercy of their careers, forever info-surfing and -searching.
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Writer/director Brooks is knowing about the wisecracks, back-stabbings, political shifts, and innate decencies of the... read more on Time Out
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Mildly satirical look at the world of television journalism that slips into romantic comedy.
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