Broadcast News

Broadcast News is a solid drama about life at a TV station, focusing on the intelligent female producer, the hyper-intelligent journalist and the new anchorman and their relationships with one another.

Holly Hunter plays the ambitious career woman Jane Craig, who produces news programmes with the skilful presenter Aaron Altman. He is outmanoeuvred, however, by the screen idol Tom Grunick, who has no idea what he is talking about. What he does have is screen presence by the bucketload. Jane is put in the difficult position of having to choose between the two men - both at work and in her private life.

Broadcast News is a love story about impossible love, but at the same time the film also tries to take up more moral questions. The medium of television comes under the microscope, but some of the issues are almost passé by now. Today, concepts such as ethics and morality do not much concern the medium of television. The film's main purpose, however, is to tell a story about the romantic triangle, so the critique of the modern news media does not cut very deep.