14 August 2009

Best severance pay in the business

Broadcast News

(1987)
I was a little worried that this would start to grow Big Chill stale, but perhaps in part because of the timeliness of imploding news organizations, it continued to work for me. Some scenes--the last-minute tape delivery, the flopsweatted anchoring, the reading-and-singing-at-the-same-time--seem impervious to staleness.

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