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  • Director: Peter Werner
  • AMG Rating: starstarstarstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Media Satire
  • Themes: Work Ethics, Members of the Press
  • Main Cast: Albert Finney, Marsha Mason, Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker
  • Release Year: 1989
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Albert Finney stars as a TV-news anchorman who wrongly implicates a good friend in a savings-and-loan scandal; when the friend commits suicide, Finney must question his ethics and obsession with high Nielsen ratings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Cast

Brett Cullen - Malcolm Dundee; Nicholas Cascone - Sid Stillwell; Al Cerullo - Pilot; David Clennon - Dr. Sigmond Grampton; Beth Grant - Martha Packard; Jim Haynie - David Hartzfield; Peter Linari - Rollo; Brad Pitt - Steve Black; Robert Schenkkan - Wilton Hale; Roger Scott - Staffer; Wendie Jo Sperber - Anita Cox; Spalding Gray - Frank Goodrich; Banks Harper - Jean Hartzfield; Adilah Barnes - Nedra Scroggins

Credit

May Routh - Costume Designer, Peter Werner - Director, Steven Cohen - Editor, David R. Ginsburg - Executive Producer, James Newton Howard - Composer (Music Score), Hilda Stark - Production Designer, Neil Roach - Cinematographer, Ron Roth - Producer, Steve McGlothen - Producer, Brian Rehak - Screenwriter

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