The Image Movie Review 1989

Anchorman Finney, the unscrupulous czar of infotainment, does a little soul delving when a man he wrongly implicated in a savings and loan debacle decides to check into the hereafter ahead of schedule. Seems the newsmonger's cut a few corners en route to the bigtime, and his public is mad as hell and. . .oops, wrong movie (need we say there are not a few echoes of "Network"?). Finney's great.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 91 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Front Page, Ethics & Morals, Mass Media

Cast

Albert Finney, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker, Swoosie Kurtz, Marsha Mason, Spalding Gray

Director

Peter Werner

Music

James Newton Howard

Producer

Home Box Office