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Holly Hunter was amazing in this movie. She packed a powerful punch in a tiny body and more than held her own against Albert Brooks, William Hurt, and even Jack Nicholson...I watched this movie for the first time in several years this week and she held my interest now as she did back then. There were several great performances, but Holly's really stood out...

>>By Kathy (Saturday, 28 Dec 2002 00:40)

I work in the television industry. This movie, more than any other, captures the truth of the business.

>>By Josh (Tuesday, 7 Jan 2003 01:48)

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DO u have a penis .........
i have a penis.............
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>>By mr. penis (Tuesday, 21 Jan 2003 02:28)

I am a college student and had to watch this movie for an essay in my English 1A class. After watching the movie I reflected on what I had seen. I thought that the movie had plenty of interesting points about it. I loved Holly Hunter in it and I like William Hurt as an actor. I am still trying to think about what aspect of the movie that I want to write about. In all, I thought that it was a very good movie and I enjoyed it very much...

>>By Fox McCleud (Friday, 21 Mar 2003 02:56)

Hey Mr. Penis,
I am just wondering why you thought it was so important to write about male gender parts instead of reflecting on the movie. I guess that you are just another poor excuse for a human being writing about something that means so much to you, ya sick freak.

>>By Also b y Fox McCleud (Friday, 21 Mar 2003 02:59)

Im in grade 11 and had to watch this move in class for Media... my teacher has seen it about 20 times so she was really able to talk about areas in the movie that had to do with what we had been discussing in class... anyways, its a great movie... I wanna be a Journalist so when i saw this i got a little nervous about all the work that u gotta do ON TIME!

>>By FirstPersianLady (Monday, 5 May 2003 06:03)

I thought that the movie was ok. i also had to watch it for my journalism class. i thought that the corniest scene would have to be when "Jane " had Tom at her house and she wanted to do something but Tom didn't. so she started to cry and cry and cry.

>>By Spacecase (Tuesday, 13 May 2003 15:22)

Yea, may have been corny but that adds to her character... shes so caught up in work that she doesnt know how else to react when situations such as that come up... the fact that she has to take out the telephone cord and give herself time to cry shows she a very unstable woman who is not ready for a relationship...

>>By FirstPersianLady (Sunday, 1 Jun 2003 21:56)

I have referred to "Broadcast News" before as my favorite movie, and that can generate blank stares. But it still remains oddly compelling to me. I like that Aaron refers to Tom as "the devil". I like that quite a few of the people drawn to work in the news business are obsessive maniacs. I like that the nature of the work places them in moral jeopardy frequently. The film suggests that it is possible for the superficial and the cosmetically beautiful to triumph over the intellectual. And that is pretty much what happened; not in the film but in real life. I like that no one "won" in the love triangle and the characters meet up and exchange greetings at the end.

James Brooks could have put a feel good ending together and had a bigger hit maybe. But he stayed true to something larger with this "romantic comedy" and he brought up some good questions on peoples tendancy to be blandly vapid for personal gain, self-destructively neurotic, and terminally conflicted.

I saw the movie in my early twenty's and it made me want to move away from a small town to a big city so I could wrestle with moral dillemas and try to find true love. I enjoyed "Raiders of The Lost Ark", but thankfully I resisted the fleeting urge to run off to the Mideast in search of religious antiquities.

>>By obelus (Thursday, 29 Jan 2004 22:30)

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