Broadcast News
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- Synopsis
- 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....
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- Starring
- William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles
- Director(s)
- James L. Brooks
- Distributor(s)
- Fox
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 132 min.
Critic Reviews
Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship.Read the full review
Broadcast News grows in your memory. It recalls an era when movies were made by, for and with three-dimensional characters you cared about. Let's hope it doesn't take James L. Brooks another four years to make another one. We can't wait that long. [25 Dec 1987, p.53]Read the full review
The dialogue in "Broadcast News" is so quick and clever I wanted to see the movie again the minute it ended because I knew I couldn't have possibly caught it all. I caught most of it though, and certainly enough to know that this is one terrific movie. [15 Dec 1987, p.1]Read the full review
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