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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. 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 George ...
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.
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.
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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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. 334 IMDb 5.9 1 h 44 min 1988. X-Ray PG.
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Ike admits to committing the murder of a police officer for which he was convicted, but that that officer was a drug dealer who sold to teenagers, including Ike's son, who died of a drug overdose. Ike did not know of him being a police officer, which may not have made any difference in his actions.
Switching Channels. Available on iTunes. Kathleen Turner and Burt Reynolds star in an updated version of one of Hollywood's most beloved stories. The original 1931 classic The Front Page starred Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou; Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell revived the story in 1949's His Girl Friday, and Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon and Susan ...
SWITCHING CHANNELS. Comedy. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s “The Front Page” gets a 1980s update from the print newsroom to broadcast television, complete with era-appropriate heartthrobs Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, and Kathleen Turner.
