Broadcast News Page #2

Synopsis: Intelligent satire of American television news. A highly strung news producer finds herself strangely attracted to a vapid anchorman even through she loathes everything he personifies. To make matters worse, her best friend, a talented but not particularly telegenic news reporter, is secretly in love with her.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
98%
R
Year:
1987
133 min
539 Views


SHOWING Jane's FATHER standing near the door.

JANE:

(voice over)

...am starting to get jealous.

I read in the newspapers about

the Italian strike and riots in

Milan. I hope you weren't...

FATHER:

(softly)

Honey?...

Jane SCREAMS, and grabs her heart, breathing heavily, babbles

nervously at her Dad.

JANE:

Oh God -- Daddy -- don't...don't...

don't ever scare me like that --

please.

We SUPER:
"FUTURE NETWORK NEWS PRODUCER"

Her father is himself taken aback with the shock of her reaction.

Falling back towards the door:

FATHER:

Jane -- For God's sake...

(recovering)

Look, it's time for you to go

to sleep.

JANE:

I just have two more pen pals and

then I'm done.

FATHER:

You don't have to finish tonight.

JANE:

(he doesn't get in)

Nooo. This way the rotation stays

the same.

FATHER:

Finish quickly. I don't want you

getting obsessive about these

things. Good night.

We REMAIN WITH Jane who has obviously become disconcerted and

troubled.

INT. HOUSE - NIGHT

As Jane moves to room at the other end of the hall -- a family

room where her Father reads the latest Rolling Stone of the

mid-60's -- Hunter Thompson, the New Journalism, the slim

Jann Wenner -- Jane bursts into the room.

JANE:

Dad, you want me to choose my words

so carefully and then you just throw

a word like 'obsessive' at me. Now,

unless I'm wrong and...

(enunciating)

...please correct me if I am, 'obsession'

is practically a psychiatric term...

concerning people who don't have anything

else but the object of their obsession --

who can't stop and do anything else. Well,

Here I am stopping to tell you this. Okay?

So would you please try and be a little

more precise instead of calling a person

something like 'obsessive.'

She advances furiously on her Father since even this strung out,

even with two additional pen pal letters to get off, she had

enough sense of duty to kiss him good night before storming from

the room. She exits the room INTO BLACK.

Stay on BLACK as we begin MAIN TITLES:

OVER EXT. SMALL MID-WESTERN CITY - DAY

Emerging from the blackness -- Jane Craig -- now a

twenty-eight-year-old woman -- a long speed walker wearing a

jacket to which reflecting stripes have been glued -- the kind

of gear only possessed by someone who runs at off-hours. The

Jacket itself is a wish-I-had-it souvenir from some important

news assignment, the sort of treasure you love about all else

yet never mention. She stops running as she feeds quarters into

the first of a phalanx of newspaper machines -- getting seven

different papers before moving on.

INT. MOTEL ROOM - DAY

As she enters from the bathroom, having showered and dressed.

The sun is jus now rising. She sits next to her phone.

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James L. Brooks

James Lawrence "Jim" Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. more…

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