

Broadcast News
It’s the story of their lives.
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight against.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $20M
- Box office
- $67.3M
- Language
- English
- journalist
- washington dc, usa
- love triangle
- workaholic
- journalism
- television producer
- neurotic
- tv news anchor
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR16 Dec 1987
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical158 Apr 1988
FranceFR
- TheatricalU9 Mar 1988
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT1216 Dec 1987
GreeceGR
- Digital / OTT29 Mar 2004
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1524 Jun 1988
ItalyIT
- Theatrical1 Apr 1988
JapanJP
- TheatricalG29 Apr 1988
RussiaRU
- Physical12+DVD «Двадцатый Век Фокс СНГ»18 Jun 2009
SlovakiaSK
- TV15Markíza19 Jan 1997
- TV15JOJ PLUS4 Jul 2010
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1526 Mar 1988
SwedenSE
- Theatrical711 Mar 1988
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Broadcast News was released on 16 December 1987.
Audience reviews
2- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/18/2022
Centred around the cut-throat environment of an American newsroom at a time when the focus of the bosses was switching from strong journalistic values to those more ratings-based, we are provided with this premiss. William Hurt ("Grunick") is certainly the more handsome man for the anchorman's chair, but he has nothing like the knowledge or gravitas of colleague and rival "Altman" (Albert Brooks) with his superior, b…
- K10/10
kevin2019
2/25/2024
"Broadcast News" is desperately overlong and it stubbornly insists upon indulging in irrelevant mini-prologues of the three main characters at the beginning which has absolutely no bearing on them as adults, but other than this the film does successfully provide a fascinating insight into the pressurised and competitive world of television journalism and it must be applauded for highlighting the unfortunate trend of …
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