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Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name, and the 1940 film His Girl Friday. [2] It stars Kathleen Turner as Christy Colleran, Burt Reynolds as John L. Sullivan IV, Christopher Reeve as Blaine Bingham, Ned Beatty as Roy Ridnitz, Henry Gibson as Ike Roscoe, and ...
Mar 4, 1988 · Switching Channels: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty. A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Ted Kotcheff
- 1988-03-04
This time the convicted man is hidden inside a Xerox machine instead of a rolltop desk, but the basic mechanics of the original Hecht-MacArthur story are still sound, and “Switching Channels” is true to the obsessive-compulsive hostility that is the fuel for all good reporters.
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Cable news anchor Christy Colleran (Kathleen Turner) and her cagey boss, John L. Sullivan (Burt Reynolds), have a long history together: They used to be married.
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- Ted Kotcheff
- PG
- Kathleen Turner
Switching Channels. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story. Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter.
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Switching Channels. TV reporter Turner tries to quit her job to marry wealthy Reeve, but her boss (and ex-husband) Reynolds isn't going to give her up so easily. Wonderful remake of THE FRONT PAGE/HIS GIRL FRIDAY updated to the satellite-television era. 339 IMDb 5.9 1 h 44 min 1988.