Broadcast News movie

Broadcast News (1987)

Cast:
  • Jack Nicholson,
  • John Cusack,
  • Joan Cusack,
  • William Hurt,
  • Holly Hunter,
  • Albert Brooks,
  • Robert Prosky,
  • Martha Smith,
  • Frank Doubleday,
  • Christian Clemenson,
  • Leo Burmester,
  • Jonathan Benya,
  • Lois Chiles,
  • Peter Hackes,
  • Marita Geraghty,
  • Ed Wheeler,
  • Robert Katims,
  • Jane Welch,
  • Peggy Pridemore,
  • Jimmy Mel Green,
  • Richard Pehle,
  • Phil Ugel,
  • Joshua Billings,
  • Arlene M. Dillon,
  • Steve Smith,
  • Albert Murphy Sr.,
  • Stephen Mendillo,
  • Glenn Faigen,
  • John Badila,
  • Robert Walsh,
  • Timothy W. White,
  • Marc Shaiman,
  • Mike Skehan,
  • M. Fekade-Salassie,
  • Cynthia B. Hayes,
  • Franklyn L. Bullard,
  • Chuck Lippman,
  • Denise King,
  • Dean Nitz,
  • Richard Thomsen,
  • David Long,
  • Sally Knight,
  • Nat Benchley,
  • Luis Valderrama,
  • Susan Marie Feldman,
  • Amy Brooks,
  • Robert Grevemberg Jr.,
  • Robert Rasch,
  • Nannette Rickert,
  • Raoul N. Rizik,
  • Dwayne Markee,
  • Heather Ehlers,
  • Sam Samuels,
  • Alex Mathews,
  • Rochelle Deering,
  • Gerard Ender,
  • Brad Baker,
  • Eleanore C. Kopecky,
  • Nicholas D. Blanchet,
  • Jean Bourne Carinci,
  • Nancy Kirk,
  • Lance Wain,
  • Maura Moynihan,
  • James V. Franco,
  • Manny Alvarez,
  • Glen Roven,
  • Jerry Gough,
  • Emily Crowley,
  • Francisco García,
  • J. Alan Thomas,
  • Kimber Shoop,
  • Gennie James
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description:

Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter), who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks) and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival (William Hurt). It also stars Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, and Jack Nicholson (billed only in the end credits) as the evening news anchor.

plot:

The film revolves around three characters who work in television news. Jane Craig (Hunter) is a talented producer who tries to conceal how important it is for her to be found sexually attractive by a handsome man who epitomizes everything about television news that appalls her. Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman (Brooks), is a gifted writer and reporter ambitious for on-camera exposure, who is secretly in love with Jane, and embittered by her rejection of him. Tom Grunick (Hurt), a local news anchorman who was up until recently a sports anchorman, is charismatic and telegenic but denied self-respect due to his intellectual limitations, of which he is all too aware. He is attracted to Jane, although he is also intimidated by her skills and intensity.

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