Broadcast News
Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this newsroom rom-com from Oscar-winning filmmaker James L Brooks (Terms of Endearment) centres on a love triangle between a news producer, the entertainment reporter she falls for, and the plain correspondent who pines for her. Features Oscar-nominated performances from William Hurt, Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks.
1987133 minsUSA
ComedyDramaRomanceClassic
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Vulture
Jane Craig is a feminist heroine in a way that few female romantic-comedy protagonists since have been, even the ones we consider strong and independent.
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Hollywood Reporter
As the talented but professionally thwarted news writer, Brooks is sensational, both vain and vulnerable.
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Sight & Sound
Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter perform with such vitality, such comic neuroticism, that they at least blur the edges of their stereotypes.
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Roger Ebert
As knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made...
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Film Threat
Watching the film many years after my first viewing, though, what really strikes me about “Broadcast News” today is director/writer/producer James L. Brooks’ spot-on prediction that news was headed for commodity status.
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