The Paper
Why this pick
Its deadline-driven newsroom bustle and overlapping professional pressures echo Broadcast News, while keeping the focus on smart, flawed people trying to balance ambition, integrity, and messy private lives.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
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A warm, dialogue-rich romantic comedy about capable adults whose public responsibilities complicate intimacy; it shares Broadcast News’s faith in verbal sparring, idealism, and emotional intelligence.
Why this pick
The foundational rapid-fire newspaper comedy: professional rivalry and romantic history collide in exhilarating overlapping dialogue, with a fiercely competent heroine at the center.
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A sharp, buoyant workplace comedy from the same era, pairing career ambition with romance and class tensions while rooting for a woman determined to have her abilities taken seriously.
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Its entertainment-industry setting, sophisticated comic rhythm, and compassionate interest in difficult people learning to see one another more clearly make it a close tonal companion.
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01 / THE STORY
The film revolves around three characters who work in television news. Jane Craig is a talented, neurotic producer whose life revolves around her work. Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman, is a gifted writer and reporter, ambitious for on-camera exposure and secretly in love with Jane. Tom Grunick, a local news anchorman who advanced from sports anchorman, is likeable and telegenic, but lacks news experience. He knows that he was hired only for his good looks and charm. He is attracted to Jane, although he is also intimidated by her skills and intensity.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Tom Grunick

Aaron Altman

Ernie Merriman

Bobby
Martin Klein
George Wein

Jane's Dad
Date-Rape Woman