Fresh
All the performers are tops.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Broadcast News
It’s the story of their lives.
1987 · 2h 13m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
James L. Brooks
Overview
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight against.
Director and cast
- James L. Brooks Director
- Holly Hunter as Jane Craig
- William Hurt as Tom Grunick
- Albert Brooks as Aaron Altman
- Robert Prosky as Ernie Merriman
- Lois Chiles as Jennifer Mack
- Joan Cusack as Blair Litton
- Peter Hackes as Paul Moore
- Peter Hackl as Paul Moore
- Christian Clemenson as Bobby
- Jack Nicholson as Bill Rorich
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Enormously entertaining.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
One of the best entertainments of 1987.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Underpinning what is a charming, protean love-triangle is a serious statement about the function, value, and direction of television news.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out
Fresh
The movie is a sarcastic and carefully detailed picture of a world Mr. Brooks finds fascinating and also a little scary.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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