Appealing and intelligent comedy about a highly charged, neurotic woman who’s a successful TV news producer, and her attraction to a pretty-boy anchorman who joins her network— and represents everything she hates about TV news. All three stars are fine, but Brooks is a special standout as an ace reporter, and Hunter’s best friend, who’s really in love with her. Nicholson contributes a funny unbilled performance as the network’s star anchorman. Written by the director; set and filmed in Washington, D.C. Since the 1970’s, the name James L. Brooks has always been synonymous with intelligent television comedy - his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeigeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big screen and none of his films is more quintessentially Brooks than Broadcast News. This cuastic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing.

1987

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9321337052892

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1.85:1

~£4.04

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