Broadcast News

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Great great great movie. Acting is SUPERB from all involved. How James L. Brooks didn't get an Oscar nomination for directing baffles me. Holly Hunter especially gives an incredible performance. A

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Broadcast News is pretty solid, if oddly focused. It's a film that's hard to really figure out why it's enjoyable, because it honestly is rather generic and not really in an interesting way. Perhaps the clever dialogue is what makes it work, or the trio of great performances at the center of the film. Hunter is particularly incredible, and Albert Brooks is a very likable presence. The prologue and epilogue are probably the best parts of the film, as they have a certain poignancy mixed with outrageous humor that the rest of the film lacks. Broadcast News is a film that at its heart is just a typical dramedy, but somehow is better than the sum of its parts. B