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Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter) who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks), and the latter's charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt).
- $15 million
- December 16, 1987
- James L. Brooks
- Bill Conti
Dec 25, 1987 · Broadcast News: Directed by James L. Brooks. With William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky. Take two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.
- James L. Brooks
- 154
- 2 min
Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make ...
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- James L. Brooks
- R
- William Hurt
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.
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Broadcast News. "Broadcast News" is as knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made, but it also has insights into the more personal matter of how people use high-pressure jobs as a way of avoiding time alone with themselves. The movie, opening today at the Fine Arts, is described as being about a romantic triangle ...
This caustic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks).
Broadcast News. HD. The frantic world of network television news is viewed from the perspective of three ambitious colleagues in this Oscar (R)-nominated film. 986 IMDb 7.3 2 h 12 min 1987. X-Ray R.