Switching Channels (1987)

Directed by

Ted Kotcheff

Genre

romantic comedy film, comedy of remarriage

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A TV news producer tries to win back his star reporter ex-wife before she remarries a wealthy suitor. The two anchors clash on the air and off while covering a breaking story.

fast-pacedscrewballwittyenergeticlightheartedbitingly funnytense

What happens

Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film that is a cable television newsroom-based retelling of newspaper-based 1928 play The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name and the 1940 film His Girl Friday. It stars Kathleen Turner as Christy Colleran, Burt Reynolds as John L. Sullivan IV, Christopher Reeve as Blaine Bingham, Ned Beatty as Roy Ridnitz, Henry Gibson as Ike Roscoe and George Newbern as Sigenthaler. The film was notorious for its harsh infighting between Reynolds and Turner during filming. The film was a box office failure and received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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