Broadcast News

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

The Spectator

Hilary Mantel

Broadcast News is a slick and well- scripted comedy, witty and well-paced; it makes no points that...

March 1, 2019

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Newhouse News Service

Richard Freedman

It's an intelligent, uproariously funny dissection of what really goes on in a TV newsroom, both o...

March 1, 2019

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McClatchy News Service

Joe Baltake

The film has savvy and it has an edge, but there s not a trace of cruelty or cheap-shot, easy humo...

As the talented but professionally thwarted news writer, Brooks is sensational, both vain and vuln...

December 18, 2018

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New York Magazine/Vulture

Jen Chaney

Jane Craig is a feminist heroine in a way that few female romantic-comedy protagonists since have...

December 19, 2017

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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.