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”This is the last straw? Where the hell were the straws?
Metro editor Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) is alternately loyal to and disgusted with a NYC daily newspaper, The Sun, where he works. His wife, Martha (Marissa Tomai), formerly worked at the same newspaper but is now home awaiting the imminent birth of their first child.
The publisher Bernie White (Robert Duvall) is not physically well. The managing editor Alicia Clark (Glenn Close) is always at odds with Henry and working hard to run a tight financial ship.
Henry secures a job offer from The Sentinel publisher, Paul Bladden (Spaulding Gray), but he really doesn’t feel like giving up on The Sun.
When a big story involving racial violence erupts, The Sun is behind the curve. While Henry’s staff bickers about who’s going to cover which aspect of the story, other staffers are also bickering about any number of other things.
When two black teenagers are arrested as suspects in murdering two Arizona bank execs, Henry wants the story run but he doesn’t want the boys convicted in The Sun because they may be innocent.
But can he prove it? Can he get the scoop?
Also appearing are Catherine O’Hara as Martha’s pessimistic friend Susan; Jason Robards as the owner of The Sun, Graham Keighley; Randy Quaid as a paranoid columnist; Clint Howard and Roma Maffia as reporters; Lynne Thigpen as Henry’s assistant Janet; Jason Alexander as embittered bureaucrat Marion Sandusky, and Rance Howard as Alicia’s doctor.
Terrific Randy Newman end credit song –- “Make Up Your Mind.”
Directed by Ron Howard.
Run time: 1 hour, 50 minute
Rated R for language and a scene of post- violence.
My personal rating: B
Metro editor Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) is alternately loyal to and disgusted with a NYC daily newspaper, The Sun, where he works. His wife, Martha (Marissa Tomai), formerly worked at the same newspaper but is now home awaiting the imminent birth of their first child.
The publisher Bernie White (Robert Duvall) is not physically well. The managing editor Alicia Clark (Glenn Close) is always at odds with Henry and working hard to run a tight financial ship.
Henry secures a job offer from The Sentinel publisher, Paul Bladden (Spaulding Gray), but he really doesn’t feel like giving up on The Sun.
When a big story involving racial violence erupts, The Sun is behind the curve. While Henry’s staff bickers about who’s going to cover which aspect of the story, other staffers are also bickering about any number of other things.
When two black teenagers are arrested as suspects in murdering two Arizona bank execs, Henry wants the story run but he doesn’t want the boys convicted in The Sun because they may be innocent.
But can he prove it? Can he get the scoop?
Also appearing are Catherine O’Hara as Martha’s pessimistic friend Susan; Jason Robards as the owner of The Sun, Graham Keighley; Randy Quaid as a paranoid columnist; Clint Howard and Roma Maffia as reporters; Lynne Thigpen as Henry’s assistant Janet; Jason Alexander as embittered bureaucrat Marion Sandusky, and Rance Howard as Alicia’s doctor.
Terrific Randy Newman end credit song –- “Make Up Your Mind.”
Directed by Ron Howard.
Run time: 1 hour, 50 minute
Rated R for language and a scene of post- violence.
My personal rating: B
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