Broadcast News is a 1987 American 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.
- Starring : William Hurt / Albert Brooks
- Genre : Comedy / Drama / Romance
- Country : United States
- Language : English / Spanish / French / German
- Director : James L. Brooks
- Production : Amercent Films / American Entertainment Partners L.P. / Gracie Films
- Distributor : Twentieth Century Fox / 20th Century Fox / Fox Columbia TriStar Films / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / 20th Century Fox Argentina / 20th Century Fox India / Filmes Castello Lopes / Finnkino / Spentzos Films / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Abril Vídeo / CBS/Fox Home Video / CBS/Fox Video / CBS/Fox / Mainostelevisio (MTV3) / The Criterion Collection / Yleisradio (YLE)
Broadcast News movie
Broadcast News release date
- December 13, 1987 : USA (New York City, New York) (premiere)
- December 16, 1987 : USA (limited)
- December 25, 1987 : USA
- March 9, 1988 : France
- March 11, 1988 : Sweden
- March 24, 1988 : Australia
- April 8, 1988 : Spain
- April 8, 1988 : UK
- April 29, 1988 : Japan
- June 24, 1988 : Ireland
- October 7, 1999 : USA (Austin Film Festival)
Broadcast News cast
- William Hurt as Tom Grunick
- Albert Brooks as Aaron Altman
- Holly Hunter as Jane Craig
- Robert Prosky as Ernie Merriman
- Lois Chiles as Jennifer Mack
- Joan Cusack as Blair Litton (as Joan Cusak)
- Peter Hackes as Paul Moore
- Christian Clemenson as Bobby
- Jack Nicholson as Bill Rorish
- Robert Katims as Martin Klein
- Ed Wheeler as George Weln
- Stephen Mendillo as Gerald Grunick
- Kimber Shoop as Young Tom
- Dwayne Markee as Young Aaron
- Gennie James as Young Jane
The film revolves around three characters who work in television news. Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) is a diminutive, talented, uptight, controlling, aggressive, and intelligent producer whose life revolves around her work. Jane’s best friend and collaborator, Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), is a gifted writer and reporter, ambitious for on-camera exposure and secretly in love with Jane. Tom Grunick (William Hurt), a local news anchorman who was promoted from sports anchorman, is tall, handsome, likeable and telegenic, but lacks news experience, general knowledge, intelligence and language skills. He knows that he was hired for his good looks and charm. He is attracted to Jane, although he is also intimidated by her skills and intensity.
All three of them work in the Washington, D.C., office of a national television network. Jane is drawn to Tom, but resents his lack of qualifications for his new position as news anchor. Aaron and Jane go to Nicaragua to report on the Sandinista rebels there and get caught up in a shooting battle between them and the contras but remain unscathed and bring home footage that wins the approval of their national anchorman.
At an office party, one of Jane’s female friends asks Jane if she would mind if she made a pass at Tom. Jane is ambivalent about Tom, saying no, then yes, then no again. News arrives of a Libyan plane having bombed a U.S. base in Italy. The network chief decides to put on a news show on the spot, with Tom as its anchorman. Jane resents this and tells the network chief that Tom is in no way qualified for this job. The network chief disagrees with her and tells her sarcastically that it must feel great to always be right and more intelligent than everybody else in the room. Jane replies that it feels awful.
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