Broadcast News (1987)
Meet the neurotics: Jane, a TV news producer, and Aaron, her best friend and a reporter for the same network. Their standards are unwaveringly high.
Then Tom joins the network as anchorman. Tom personifies everything they hate about the business—he’s a beautiful, ignorant, talking head. He tells Jane, “Half of the time I don’t ‘get’ the news that I’m talking about.”
These characters are so realistically drawn that it’s impossible not to care for each of them and hope that good things happen for them all. Brooks, in particular, is a stand-out as Aaron, the talented reporter and social misfit. “Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?”
The writing never rings false and is often laugh-out-loud hilarious. The cast is perfect.
A
Then Tom joins the network as anchorman. Tom personifies everything they hate about the business—he’s a beautiful, ignorant, talking head. He tells Jane, “Half of the time I don’t ‘get’ the news that I’m talking about.”
These characters are so realistically drawn that it’s impossible not to care for each of them and hope that good things happen for them all. Brooks, in particular, is a stand-out as Aaron, the talented reporter and social misfit. “Wouldn’t this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?”
The writing never rings false and is often laugh-out-loud hilarious. The cast is perfect.
A
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