Storyline
Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news she despises. Aaron Altman, a talented but plain correspondent, carries an unrequited torch for Jane. Sparks fly between the three as the network prepares for big changes, and both the news and Jane must decide between style and substance.
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Cast
Jack Nicholson, Marc Shaiman, William Hurt, Joan Cusack, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, John Cusack, Leo Burmester, Marita Geraghty, Stephen Mendillo, Christian Clemenson, Robert Prosky, Ed Wheeler, Frank Doubleday, Lois Chiles, Robert Katims, Peter Hackes, Kimber Shoop, Dwayne Markee, Gennie James, Glen Roven, Jonathan Benya, Jane Welch, Amy Brooks
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Reviews
100
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.
100
Empire
In a film tracing the endless battles between style and substance, Brooks delivers both in abundance.
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
Variety
Enormously entertaining, Broadcast News is an inside look at the personal and professional lives of three TV journlists.
88
A film whose "TV movie" feel is at once incredibly appropriate and a notable drawback, Broadcast News is nevertheless worthy adult entertainment.
