Broadcast News
Director: James L. Brooks
1987 / 133min / DCP
Imagined by writer-director Brooks as a romantic comedy with a “new kind of heroine,” his follow-up to the wildly successful Terms of Endearment focuses on a love triangle between brilliant, career-driven television news producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter); her conscientious but camera-shy colleague, Aaron (Albert Brooks); and telegenic station newcomer Tom (William Hurt), the two men competing for an anchor job and the attentions of the disarmingly intense Jane.
“In his first film since his Oscar-winning Terms of Endearment, Mr. Brooks goes inside the offices and studios of the Washington bureau of a national television network to show us how things work. As exposes go, Broadcast News is gentle. It's far more amused than angry. Its wit is decently humane.” —Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century
Introduction by Michael Barbaro of "The Daily" on Saturday, October 17th
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