The Paper Page #2

Synopsis: Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability...but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Ron Howard
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
1994
112 min
259 Views


- Who's trying to kill you now?

- Sandusky.

The parking guy?

Over a couple of lousy columns?

My columns aren't lousy.

Give it up, would you?

Get it out of your system.

So they towed your car

and scratched it a bit.

Six thousand dollars. Six thousand

dollars damage to a vintage automobile.

- You're ranting now, babe.

- I bust my ass...

to find something fresh, and when I

get it, I bang it like a cheap drum.

People love this sh*t.

You should read my mail.

Turn that scanner down, will you?

How the hell are you

supposed to sleep around here?

Jeez. What are these?

Subway wreck, West 4th Street this

morning. Did you find the one with the...

- Is that an arm?

- Yeah, you found it.

Don't put these on my desk

in the morning, okay?

- Not until I've had three cokes.

- Good morning.

Three Cokes, then a picture.

That's the rule. What?

You know what's going on in Fort Green?

Two dozen cops hassling anybody...

with a black face and a record

on this Williamsburg murder thing.

If there's gonna be a riot,

which I think there is...

then we should have somebody there.

Unless you want to get stomped

two days in a row on the same story.

"Get stomped." That's funny. Doesn't

anybody say "good morning" any more?

- I don't think so.

- Williamsburg, huh?

That's Wilder's territory, isn't it?

You trying to bigfoot him?

Wilder? Oh, yeah, he really aced it

last night, huh?

Come on, Henry.

I know this neighbourhood. I go...

Forget the desk.

She can have the desk.

But give me the chair,

for Christ's sakes!

Phil, I was talking to somebody.

- I can hardly stand up straight.

- You know what?

Go do that.

That's a good idea.

I'll handle Wilder.

Don't worry about it.

- What are you gonna do to Wilder?

- Nothing.

You don't know what it's like

to live in pain. It does things to you.

- It changes you.

- I'm sure it does.

I wanna talk to you

about those changes, okay?

Rub some... nothing.

Look, keep all the bullshit

away from me today...

because I've got a really big decision

I have to make...

and I just need some time

to think about this.

What, about the job at The Sentinel?

How do you know about

the job at The Sentinel?

Bernie told me.

Bernie knows? Oh, man!

It's a newsroom, Henry.

I know it's none of my business,

but...

do you really want

to count pencils uptown?

Is that you?

Sometimes you can just smell...

a horrendously shitty day

on the way, can't you?

Don't chop the sh*t out of it

like you did with the nun thing.

It's early.

Let me look at it.

This jerk on the phone wants

a correction on the quake story.

You have an early proof from yesterday?

I hate columnists!

Why do I have all these columnists?

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