Broadcast News

1987

133 mins

Directed by James L. Brooks
98%
79%
Comedy
Drama
Romance

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this newsroom rom-com from Oscar-winning filmmaker James L Brooks (Terms of Endearment)... More

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this newsroom rom-com from Oscar-winning filmmaker James L Brooks (Terms of Endearment) centres on a love triangle between a news producer, the entertainment reporter she falls for, and the plain correspondent who pines for her. Features Oscar-nominated performances from William Hurt, Holly Hunter and Albert Brooks.

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Broadcast News | Ratings & Reviews

98_%57 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
79_%11,101 reviews
Audience score rating

"James Brooks is too gifted a writer for that simple a story."

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Chicago Tribune

"Jane Craig is a feminist heroine in a way that few female romantic-comedy protagonists since have been, even the ones we consider strong and independent."

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Vulture

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

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Hollywood Reporter

"Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter perform with such vitality, such comic neuroticism, that they at least blur the edges of their stereotypes."

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Sight & Sound

"Enormously entertaining..."

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Variety

"As knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made..."

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Roger Ebert

"Watching the film many years after my first viewing, though, what really strikes me about “Broadcast News” today is director/writer/producer James L. Brooks’ spot-on prediction that news was headed for commodity status."

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