Broadcast News was suggested by our member John Atkinson, who writes: 'Broadcast News is the sort of nuanced comedy drama that studios run a mile from these days. It’s wonderfully written, full of great dialogue delivered by a perfect cast. It’s one of my wife’s favourite films, but we’ve never seen it together on a big screen.'

Since the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy - his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeitgeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big screen, and none of his films was more quintessentially Brooks than Broadcast News. This caustic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing. -The Criterion Collection

Cast:
Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Rosario Flores, Leonor Watling