Broadcast News
The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer, who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival. Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.
2 June 1924, New York City, New York, USA
1 February 1944, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
7 June 1942, Sirte, Libya
22 April 1937, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
16 October 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
February 26, 2011
(The) endlessly quotable writing... keeps the film fresh as Tom, Aaron and Jane carom off each other at ever-more oblique angles.
January 17, 2011
By looking at the small-screen picture...[Brooks] provocatively suggests that America's socio-political problems are pretty much the same as the personal problems of its citizens. [Blu-ray]
April 01, 2008
One of the best entertainments of 1987.
April 02, 2008
The outstanding set pieces give the viewer an idea of the job pressures, its perks, pitfalls and how the news is in the long run compromised.
May 20, 2003
The movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary.
April 01, 2008
Enormously entertaining.
January 01, 2000
Brooks' observations are as keen as Woody Allen's but without the neurotic narcissism.
February 09, 2006
Underpinning what is a charming, protean love-triangle is a serious statement about the function, value, and direction of television news.
February 06, 2011
The human element is just as prescient as it was then, while the characters' romantic/professional entanglements now have the added poignancy of the past tense.
February 02, 2009
All the performers are tops.
February 24, 2010
People often behave foolishly in matters of love and just about everything else. That can lead to heartache and tragedy, but that same foolishness can also be very funny to watch, as it is here.
