The read
Audiences rate it 29 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,953 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes32%
Audiences rate it 29 points higher than critics do.
245 audience votes
Key crew
- Joan DidionScreenplay
- Jon AvnetDirector
- John Gregory DunneScreenplay
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Robert RedfordWarren Justice
- Michelle PfeifferTally Atwater
- Stockard ChanningMarcia McGrath
- Joe MantegnaBucky Terranova
- Kate NelliganJoanna Kennelly
- Glenn PlummerNed Jackson
- James RebhornJohn Merino
- Scott BryceRob Sullivan
- Raymond CruzFernando Buttanda
- Dedee PfeifferLuanne Atwater
- Michael LaskinIBS Director
- Lorielle NewMerino's Secretary
Stills
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Themes
careermiami, floridaaffectationreportercandidintimateabsurdadmiringadoringamusedinformativesympathetic