History Film / BroadcastNews

All three share a slavish devotion to their work, even Tom, ever aware of his low intelligence, wishes to someday cover a story without Jane's help. As Creator/RogerEbert describes: "After Hunter whispers into Hurt's earpiece to talk him through a crucial live report on a Middle East crisis, he kneels at her feet and says it was like sex, having her voice inside his head. He never gets that excited about sex. Neither does she." Indeed, it's only because their romance gets tied up in the workplace's questions of journalistic standards and integrity that Jane, Tom, and Aaron's LoveTriangle gets tenser and tenser.

-->'''Paul:''' [[SarcasmMode It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.]]
-->'''Jane:''' ''(sincerely)'' [[SarcasmBlind No. It's awful.]]

-->'''Jane:''' ''(sincerely)'' No. It's awful.

* SarcasmBlind: When Jane is arguing with Paul Moore over using Tom to anchor a breaking special report.
-->'''Paul:''' It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room.
-->'''Jane:''' (sincerely) No, it's awful.

** Aaron too, more often than not. His response to Tom doing a report on date rape was to make a snarky comment about how Tom had "blown the lid off nookie"

** Jane sends a romantic rival off to Alaska so she can get closer to Tom

* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tom advances in TV news on his looks despite never going to college and not knowing current events. Jennifer Mack is his DistaffCounterpart.

* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful: Tom advances in TV news on his looks despite never going to college and not knowing current events.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Jennifer uses an oversize pillow as this after having sex with Tom.

->'''Tom''': ''You're an amazing woman. What a feeling, having you inside my head.''
->'''Jane''': ''Yeah, it was an unusual place to be.''
->'''Tom''': ''It's, like, indescribable. You knew just when to feed me the next line the second before I needed it. There was a rhythm we got into. It was like great sex.''

A 1987 drama-comedy written, directed, and produced by Creator/JamesLBrooks. It tells the tale of three newspeople who get tangled in a LoveTriangle. At one vertex, producer Jane Craig (Creator/HollyHunter) leads her life in chronic emotional meltdown because of her obsessive-compulsive character. She's sexually attracted to but professionally repulsed by Tom Grunick (Creator/WilliamHurt), a simple reporter who landed his job solely on good looks and charisma. He only survives on live TV because Jane feeds him everything he needs to say through an earpiece. Meanwhile, the brilliant Aaron Altman (Creator/AlbertBrooks) dreams of reporting evening news but his un-telegenic looks hold him back both from his ambitions and his crush on Jane.

Watching this character knot unravel is exciting due to both strong performances by the lead actors and an excellent screenplay by Creator/JamesLBrooks. He frequently shifts from comedy to drama but his dialogue always shimmers: it's hard not to laugh at Jane and Tom's good-natured flirting on the one hand, while when Aaron presses Tom on his ignorance of basic world affairs the discomfort hangs like a dagger in the air. ''Broadcast News'' kept low profile but was universally praised by critics, getting four stars from Creator/RogerEbert and fifth place in Creator/GeneSiskel's favorite films of 1987.

* GainaxEnding

* DuelingMovies: Came out the same day as ''{{Moonstruck}}''.

* KarmaHoudini: Even after the other main characters discover it, Tom never suffers any negative consequences from [[spoiler:manipulating a rape victim and orchestrating a piece to get himself promoted]].
* LoveTriangle

-->''(on faking tears for a news item)''

* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl:]] [[spoiler:No one in the movie winds up with anyone. Seven years later and Jane is in a serious relationship with someone else, Aaron is married to someone else, and Tom is dating someone else.]] And yet it doesn't seem like it was intended to be depressing.

A 1987 drama-comedy written, directed, and produced by Creator/JamesLBrooks. It tells the tale of three newspeople who get tangled in a LoveTriangle. At one vertex, producer Jane Craig (HollyHunter) leads her life in chronic emotional meltdown because of her obsessive-compulsive character. She's sexually attracted to but professionally repulsed by Tom Grunick (WilliamHurt), a simple reporter who landed his job solely on good looks and charisma. He only survives on live TV because Jane feeds him everything he needs to say through an earpiece. Meanwhile, the brilliant Aaron Altman (Creator/AlbertBrooks) dreams of reporting evening news but his un-telegenic looks hold him back both from his ambitions and his crush on Jane.

All three share a slavish devotion to their work, even Tom, ever aware of his low intelligence, wishes to someday cover a story without Jane's help. As RogerEbert describes: "After Hunter whispers into Hurt's earpiece to talk him through a crucial live report on a Middle East crisis, he kneels at her feet and says it was like sex, having her voice inside his head. He never gets that excited about sex. Neither does she." Indeed, it's only because their romance gets tied up in the workplace's questions of journalistic standards and integrity that Jane, Tom, and Aaron's LoveTriangle gets tenser and tenser.

Watching this character knot unravel is exciting due to both strong performances by the lead actors and an excellent screenplay by Creator/JamesLBrooks. He frequently shifts from comedy to drama but his dialogue always shimmers: it's hard not to laugh at Jane and Tom's good-natured flirting on the one hand, while when Aaron presses Tom on his ignorance of basic world affairs the discomfort hangs like a dagger in the air. BroadcastNews kept low profile but was universally praised by critics, getting four stars from RogerEbert and fifth place in GeneSiskel's favorite films of 1987.

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A 1987 drama-comedy written, directed, and produced by JamesLBrooks. It tells the tale of three newspeople who get tangled in a LoveTriangle. At one vertex, producer Jane Craig (HollyHunter) leads her life in chronic emotional meltdown because of her obsessive-compulsive character. She's sexually attracted to but professionally repulsed by Tom Grunick (WilliamHurt), a simple reporter who landed his job solely on good looks and charisma. He only survives on live TV because Jane feeds him everything he needs to say through an earpiece. Meanwhile, the brilliant Aaron Altman (AlbertBrooks) dreams of reporting evening news but his un-telegenic looks hold him back both from his ambitions and his crush on Jane.

Watching this character knot unravel is exciting due to both strong performances by the lead actors and an excellent screenplay by JamesLBrooks. He frequently shifts from comedy to drama but his dialogue always shimmers: it's hard not to laugh at Jane and Tom's good-natured flirting on the one hand, while when Aaron presses Tom on his ignorance of basic world affairs the discomfort hangs like a dagger in the air. BroadcastNews kept low profile but was universally praised by critics, getting four stars from RogerEbert and fifth place in GeneSiskel's favorite films of 1987.

-->'''Jane:''' ''(sincerely)'' No. It's awful.

* TheTedBaxter: Subverted the hell out of. Tom ''knows'' he's coasting on his appearance. He still knows all of the tricks that Aaron doesn't know.

All three share a slavish devotion to their work ? even Tom, ever aware of his low intelligence, wishes to someday cover a story without Jane's help. As RogerEbert describes: "After Hunter whispers into Hurt's earpiece to talk him through a crucial live report on a Middle East crisis, he kneels at her feet and says it was like sex, having her voice inside his head. He never gets that excited about sex. Neither does she." Indeed, it's only because their romance gets tied up in the workplace's questions of journalistic standards and integrity that Jane, Tom, and Aaron's LoveTriangle gets tenser and tenser.

* BookEnds: The film begins with vignettes of the three main characters in childhood, and [[DistantFinale ends with them seven years after the events of the movie]] (Although they do not look appreciably aged in that scene).