Product Details

• Actors: Griffin Dunne, Jonathan Katz, Fran Brill, Felicity Huffman Paul Dooley
• Directors: William H. Macy
• Format: NTSC, HiFi Sound, Color, VHS, Original recording
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Prism / HBO Showcase Video
• Run Time: 67 minutes
• ASIN: B000MHU48Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,238 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The TV news industry is targeted in this satire, about a veteran newsman (Paul Dooley) who is edged out of his morning show anchor chair by a brash upstart (Griffin Dunne). This non-theatrical, HBO TV movie directed by William H. Macy (FARGO) is as good and incisive a comedic look at the lower levels of the TV-station/news business as the classic NETWORK (1976) is to the upper echelons. Dunne & Dooley excel in this all but unseen, unacclaimed, subtly ruthless spoof of the (lack of) values, the disloyalty and insincerity, and the ignorance of mediocre TV talents. Look for Felicity Huffman in an early career role, too.