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    Broadcast News (1987)

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    The setting is the Washington news bureau of a major TV network; the focus is on three aspiring journalists climbing the ladder to national success.

    William Hurt is the glamorous moron who brings us the news without knowing anything about it. Naturally, the network grooms his pretty face for stardom as an anchor.

    Albert Brooks, as a talented and dedicated reporter, can’t get to first base because he’s ethnic and lacks star charisma.

    And the incandescent Holly Hunter is the crackerjack workaholic producer who can’t balance integrity in her work ethics with a good sex life but loves both guys.

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    With Brooks, she’s maternal. With Hurt, she compromises her standards, but what the hell?

    Sometimes, she says, great sex with a shallow fake is better than no sex at all.

    Broadcast News creates these memorable characters and fills the roles with marvellous actors. You’ll even like Jack Nicholson’s delicious cameo as the veteran network star who seems oilier on camera than Geraldo Rivera.

    Following everyone’s triumphs and failures through on-camera crises and off-camera heart breaks, you’ll regard them all as old friends long before the final sign-off.

    Exposing the hypocrisy that goes on behind the scenes in TV news, the competitive jockeying for position among anchormen, the tribulations of being a smart woman in a man’s world, the fight for standards, and the incompetence that rules the airwaves, director-writer James (Terms of Endearment) Brooks leaves the audience laughing but uncomfortable in the knowledge that the news has nothing to do with news at all – it’s show business.

    Tom Grunick
    William Hurt
    Jane Craig
    Holly Hunter
    Aaron Altman
    Albert Brooks
    Ernie Merriman
    Robert Prosky
    Jennifer Mack
    Lois Chiles
    Blair Litton
    Joan Cusack
    Bill Rorish
    Jack Nicholson
    Paul Moore
    Peter Hackes
    Bobby
    Christian Clemenson
    Martin Klein
    Robert Katims
    George Moore
    Ed Wheeler
    Gerald Grunick
    Stephen Mendillo
    Young Tom
    Kimber Shoop
    Young Aaron
    Dwayne Markee
    Young Jane
    Gennie James
    Jane’s Dad
    Leo Burmester
    Elli Merriman
    Amy Brooks
    Clifford Altman
    Jonathan Benya
    Lila
    Sally Knight
    General McGuire
    Richard Thomsen
    Edward Towne
    Tim White
    Emily
    Emily Crowley
    Donny
    David Long

    Director
    James L Brooks

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