Synopsis
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
- William HurtTom Grunick
- Albert BrooksAaron Altman
- Holly HunterJane Craig
- Robert ProskyErnie Merriman
- Lois ChilesJennifer Mack
- Joan CusackBlair Litton
- Peter HackesPaul Moore
- Christian ClemensonBobby
- Jack NicholsonBill Rorich
- Robert KatimsMartin Klein
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
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
TV Guide Magazine
A film whose "TV movie" feel is at once incredibly appropriate and a notable drawback, Broadcast News is nevertheless worthy adult entertainment. - 88
Chicago Tribune
Broadcast News is the crispest, classiest entertainment; it has what Hollywood has been missing. [16 Dec 1987, p.8] - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Brooks's screenplay overstates matters both at the beginning of the film and at the end, with a prologue that strains to be cute and an epilogue that is just unnecessary. In between, however, the movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary. - 80
Washington Post
Director Brooks masterfully interconnects this human triangle with the breakneck world of broadcasting -- the professional frenzy behind the news. He shifts the mood from romantic to farcical, the comedy from broad to subtle.
