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Broadcast News (1987) 7.2
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Reviews: 98 user | 53 critic | 16 from Metacritic.com Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly. Director:James L. BrooksWriter:James L. Brooks |
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Blair Litton
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George Wein
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Gerald Grunick
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Kimber Shoop | ... |
Young Tom
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Dwayne Markee | ... |
Young Aaron
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Storyline
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. Written by Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
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1980s | panties hit the floor | tv reporter | tv news | television news |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
25 December 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Network News See more »Filming Locations:
600 East Capitol Street SE, Capitol Hill, Washington, District of Columbia, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$51,249,404 (USA)Company Credits
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Paul Moore: You can make it less brutal by knocking a million or so off your salary... Bad joke, I'm sorry.
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Written by Francis Cabrel
Performed by Francis Cabrel
Courtesy of Editions 31 (Paris)
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James L. Brooks wrote Broadcast News (1987) especially for Debra Winger, but she was forced to turn it down because she was pregnant with her son Noah Hutton. Before casting Holly Hunter as a replacement, Brooks considered Sigourney Weaver, Judy Davis, Elizabeth McGovern, Christine Lahti and Elizabeth Perkins. See more »Goofs
When Aaron and Tom are talking at the party, Tom claims that he would never pretend to know more than he really did. A few moments later Aaron shows him up as a fraud when he asks if Tom can name all the members of the President's cabinet. When Tom claims to know all the names, Aaron asks him "All twelve?". When Tom answers yes, Aaron delivers the 'gotcha' comeback "There's only ten." In fact there were 13 cabinet secretaries at the time the movie was made (the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, and Education, and the Attorney General). Since the film's release, two more secretaries have been added (Veteran's Affairs and Homeland Security). See more »Quotes
Bill Rorich: This is a brutal layoff. And all because they couldn't program Wednesday nights.Paul Moore: You can make it less brutal by knocking a million or so off your salary... Bad joke, I'm sorry.
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Albert Brooks' singing of "L'Edition Speciale" from the film also briefly appears in the end credits. See more »Soundtracks
L'Edition SpecialeWritten by Francis Cabrel
Performed by Francis Cabrel
Courtesy of Editions 31 (Paris)
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Essential viewing for anyone who watches TV news as it may help to become a little more sceptical, or even cynical. On a personal note I recall taking a course some years ago about being interviewed for TV - what to do, what not to do. The course instructors impressed on us that TV news was a "branch of show-biz". That depressing view, which is probably even more valid today than when it was made, is reinforced by this film. Never mind journalistic integrity, what counts is the ability to look good and smile nicely. And make sure you don't sweat on camera.
The interactions between the three main characters form the centre-piece, each with his or her own ambitions, capabilities and beliefs. Brooks takes these differences and sets them into the volatile setting of a TV news studio, and adds more than a pinch of love interest to the mixture. The result is a complex, if somewhat overlong, portrayal of how we compromise every day in order to meet our ambitions and take others with us. It is always entertaining, although the final scene was, perhaps, unnecessary given everything that had gone before.