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Name: Broadcast News
Released: 1987-12-16
Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter

Broadcast News

R
2h 13m
1987

98%

age 16+

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A satiric look at the Washington news bureau of a major TV network and the romantic triangle between a young female producer, a male news anchor, and a good-hearted male reporter.

Director:

James L. Brooks

Producer:

James L. Brooks

Writer:

James L. Brooks

Cast:

William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: Blockbuster dramatist James L. Brooks delivers with Broadcast News, fully entertaining with deft, deep characterization.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

Perceptive on several levels -- particularly in its study of romantic entanglements, its take on the role of the media, and its commentary on style versus substance -- this finds Holly Hunter delivering the best female performance of the 1980s.

I struggle to think of a safer, more charming film.

December 1, 2020

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El Pais (Spain)

Ángel Fernández-Santos

It achieves an unexpected flow in its development and an even more unexpected magic in certain moments. [Full Review in Spanish]

Hunter shows us a woman who was never able to pretend she wasn't smarter than the guys, and gives a performance of such springy naturalness that it hardly seems like a performance at all.

Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter perform with such vitality, such comic neuroticism, that they at least blur the edges of their stereotypes.

January 28, 2020

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Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Witty TV newsroom tale for mature comedy fans.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie is heavy on dialogue and "grown-up" humor and a better choice for mature teens and up. Characters discuss journalistic ethics and pose occasionally existential questions about life, careers, love, and success. Sexual content includes rear male nudity and a discussion of date rape for a news story. Violence is mild with some background shooting during one journalist's field report. Characters are realistically flawed and self-absorbed, but work together in a supportive way.