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  • Broadcast News
  • Opened December 16, 1987
  • R
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. Read More
  • Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make matters worse, her best friend, a talented but not Read More
  • Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson
  • Director: James L. Brooks
  • Genres: Romantic Comedy, Comedy Drama, Workplace Comedy, Media Satire

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  • 100
    Boston Globe |

    Broadcast News grows in your memory. It recalls an era when movies were made...

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the...

  • 90
    Wall Street Journal | Julie Salamon

    The dialogue in "Broadcast News" is so quick and clever I wanted to see the...

  • 90
    Variety |

    Enormously entertaining, Broadcast News is an inside look at the personal and...

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