Broadcast News Poster
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Release Date: February 22nd, 2004

DVD Release Date: October 5th, 1999

R|2 hr 12 min

Plot Summary
Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make matters worse, her best friend, a talented but not particularly telegenic news reporter, is secretly in love with her.

Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Peter Hackes, Christian Clemenson

Director: James Brooks

Genres: Romantic comedy

Production Co: Gracie Films, American Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox

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  • 100
    Boston Globe

    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]

  • 90
    Julie SalamonWall Street Journal

    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]

  • 100
    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times

    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. show more

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