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Switching Channels (1988)

 -  Comedy | Crime  -  4 March 1988 (USA)
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A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

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Storyline

Sully is the producer of a cable news network program. Christy is his ex-wife and best reporter. Her desire to quit the news business and marry Blaine, a sporting goods manufacturer comes as an innocent man is about to be executed. Sully's attempts to keep her in town and break up her upcoming marriage happen against the backdrop of a botched execution, a prison break and a possible pardon. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

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Tonight's News. Romance. Scandal. Intrigue. And that's just behind the camera!

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Comedy | Crime

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4 March 1988 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Cambio marito  »

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$18,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$9,129,999 (USA)
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Christopher Reeve apparently regretted making this movie. He said that he took the project on only because he was suffering post-divorce depression and believed that he had "made a fool of himself" in the film. See more »

Goofs

The people working for the cable news network out of Chicago are trying to urge the governor to pardon "Ike", even to go as far as on a newscast to urge Springfield to listen. At one point we see the governor tell his aids he will grant the pardon and wants time on the 11 o'clock news. In Chicago, and all of Illinois for that matter, being in the central time zone the governor would have asked for time on the 10 o'clock news. See more »

Quotes

Blaine Bingham: So, you're what a network news man looks like.
John L. Sullivan IV: And you sell jock straps!
Blaine Bingham: 25 million last year alone. You know if I'd invented that little baby, I'd be a rich man today.
John L. Sullivan IV: I thought you were a rich man. Aren't you a multi-millionaire?
Blaine Bingham: Depends on what you mean by multi.
John L. Sullivan IV: Multi usually means more than one!
Christy Colleran: Blaine, sweetheart, we don't have to dicuss our finances with him.
John L. Sullivan IV: Our?
Christy Colleran: Our.
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Version of The Front Page (1970) See more »

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Sooo much better than Broadcast News
23 February 2004 | by (London) – See all my reviews

This is really worth rediscovering - Turner and co really throw themselves into it and (shock) Reeve sends himself up excellently (particularly good in the 'vertigo in the lift' scene.

As revealed elsewhere, it's a remake of The Front Page - in fact right now can't think of a better way to spend a rainy afternoon than a double bill of these two in front of a nice fire :-)

So - not going to change your life - but I'll cheer you up.


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