Title

Broadcast News

Cast

William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson, Peter Hackes, Christian Clemenson, Robert Katims, Ed Wheeler, Nat Benchley, Jonathan Benya, Joshua Billings, Amy Brooks, Leo Burmeister, John Cusack, Frank Doubleday, Marita Geraghty, Gennie James, Dwayne Markee, Stephen Mendillo, Stuart Pankin, Kimber Shoop, Martha Smith, Steve Smith, Robert Walsh, Jane Welch, Marc Shaiman, Raoul Rizik, John Badila, Luis Valderrama, Ellen Chenoweth, Maura Moynihan, Richard Thomsen, David Long

Director

Cinematographer

Editor

Language

English

Video

1080p 23.976 fps 1.85:1

Audio

DTS-HD MA 2.0 24 bits 48 kHz 2048 kbps

Subtitles

English

Disc

BD50 47.42 GB Region A, C

Tags

Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Terms of Endearment, The Simpsons) was synonymous with intelligent television comedy - his shows were insightful about work and love and always tapped into the zeitgeist. With his transition to film in the 1980s, he became a master Hollywood storyteller, and none of his films was more quintessentially Brooks than Broadcast News. This caustic inside look at the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter (Raising Arizona, The Piano), 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 entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.