“Broadcast News has a lot of interesting things to say about television. But the thing it does best is look into a certain kind of personality and a certain kind of relationship.”
Screened in tribute to William Hurt (1950—2022)
Since the 1970s, James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy with shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi and The Simpsons. 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.
