BROADCAST NEWS (CRITERION) (BLU-RAY)

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Since the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy—his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeitgeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big screen, and none of his films was more quintessentially Brooks than Broadcast News. This caustic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing.
• Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Peter Hackes, Christian Clemenson, Jack Nicholson, Robert Katims, Ed Wheeler, Stephen Mendillo, Kimber Shoop, Dwayne Markee, Gennie James, Leo Burmester, Amy Brooks, Jane Welch, Jonathan Benya, Frank Doubleday, Sally Knight, Manny Alvarez, Luis Valderrama, Francisco García, Richard Thomsen, Nat Benchley, Marita Geraghty, Nicholas D. Blanchet, Maura Moynihan, Chuck Lippman, Nannette Rickert, Timothy W. White, Peggy Pridemore, Emily Crowley, Gerard Ender, David Long, Joshua Billings, Glenn Faigen, Robert Grevemberg Jr., Richard Pehle, James V. Franco, Jimmy Mel Green, Raoul N. Rizik, Mike Skehan, Franklyn L. Bullard, Glen Roven, Mark Shaiman, Alex Mathews, Steve Smith, Martha Smith, Cynthia B. Hayes, Dean Nitz, Phil Ugel, Lance Wain, Susan Marie Feldman, Jean Bourne Carinci, M. Fekade-Salassie, Jerry Gough, Robert Rasch, Robert Walsh, John Cusack, John Badila, Heather Ehlers, Arlene M. Dillon, Sam Samuels, Rochelle Deering, Albert Murphy Sr., Eleanore C. Kopecky, J. Alan Thomas, Brad Baker, Denise King, Nancy Kirk, James L. Brooks, Michael Ballhaus, Richard Marks, Bil Conti
• Director: James L. Brooks
• Runtime: 2:12
• Company: The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Gracie Films
• Media Format: Movie