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Summary: An hilarious look at workings of a semi-reputable paper
Review: "The Paper" is one of the funniest films of the 1990s, providing an extraordinarily realistic view of the behind-the-scenes (dys)function of a newspaper office. This tabloid-styled commuter paper is just large enough to need to be seriously professional, while also being just small enough for that serious professionalism to be virtually impossible to accomplish. Unless you are a journalist for the type of 'paper of record' which the film satirizes in the form of the stuffy, rival "Sentinal" (clearly modelled on the NY Times), "The Paper" will yield much of its humour from its high realism. "The Paper" covers a single day in the implosively pressurized life of a reporter (Michael Keaton) who also happens to adore his job. The dynamism generated by the wise-guy supporting cast (which includes Randy Quaid, Roma Mafia, and Robert Duvall) makes it easy to understand why journalism is not a profession so much as an addiction. What would make a saner and more timid employee flee for the hills, produces a soaring high to the seasoned journalist. As Keaton's wife (Marisa Tomei), hugely pregnant and stuck on leave, exclaims after a gunshot is suddenly fired in a news office: "God I love this place". Virtually every line spoken in the newspaper office is beautifully snide and worth catching, so keep the remote control close at hand. The genuinely crazed encounters between Keaton and Glenn Close, playing a penny-pinching, ethically-challenged manager whose need to respect a deadline collides with Keaton's eleventh-hour attempt to produce an accurate and ennobling story, contribute strongly to an overall comedic masterpiece. Though the journalistically-inclined will get a special kick from "The Paper", its appeal should be nearly universal, such is delerious wit of its dialogue and the thrill of its frenetic pacing.
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Summary: An hilarious look at workings of a semi-reputable paper
Review: "The Paper" is one of the funniest films of the 1990s, providing an extraordinarily realistic view of the behind-the-scenes (dys)function of a newspaper office. This tabloid-styled commuter paper is just large enough to need to be seriously professional, while also being just small enough for that serious professionalism to be virtually impossible to accomplish. Unless you are a journalist for the type of 'paper of record' which the film satirizes in the form of the stuffy, rival "Sentinal" (clearly modelled on the NY Times), "The Paper" will yield much of its humour from its high realism. "The Paper" covers a single day in the implosively pressurized life of a reporter (Michael Keaton) who also happens to adore his job. The dynamism generated by the wise-guy supporting cast (which includes Randy Quaid, Roma Mafia, and Robert Duvall) makes it easy to understand why journalism is not a profession so much as an addiction. What would make a saner and more timid employee flee for the hills, produces a soaring high to the seasoned journalist. As Keaton's wife (Marisa Tomei), hugely pregnant and stuck on leave, exclaims after a gunshot is suddenly fired in a news office: "God I love this place". Virtually every line spoken in the newspaper office is beautifully snide and worth catching, so keep the remote control close at hand. The genuinely crazed encounters between Keaton and Glenn Close, playing a penny-pinching, ethically-challenged manager whose need to respect a deadline collides with Keaton's eleventh-hour attempt to produce an accurate and ennobling story, contribute strongly to an overall comedic masterpiece. Though the journalistically-inclined will get a special kick from "The Paper", its appeal should be nearly universal, such is delerious wit of its dialogue and the thrill of its frenetic pacing.
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Summary: All too familiar
Review: A concise note to those perhaps not familiar with the journalism business: This movie is a wonderful depiction of what goes on before deadline. And I've worked with characters just like those portrayed in the film, and although not every day is that exciting, some certainly are. It's a fun ride.
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Summary: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!!! This is one great movie!
Review: Another great movie from Ron Howard!!! A great cast!!! A treat from start to finish!!! And this DVD version delivers!!! It looks and sounds great!!! A top notch DVD from Universal!!! A Five Star Movie!!! A+
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Summary: Out of all my FAVORITE RON HOWARD FILM
Review: Henry Hacchet(Keaton) is a man who is desperate for time. two young kids who are arrested for a murder ... This movie basically focuses on 24 hours of the news headline. Meanwhile Hacchet, who has to decide about his other job at the sentinal is at struggle and cannot to his work because of greaty managing editor Alicia Clark(Close). Marisa Tomei after her oscar does a profound job as Keatons wife in this picture. Lonly boss Bernie(Duvall) is having a tough time with his personal life shuts down and leaves it to Alicia and Henry to decide wheather the story is wrong or not. Then Macdugel(Quaid) who already is dealing with his own enemies because of lousy columns pointed at a pissed of parking commisioner Sienfields Jason Alexander as Marion Sanduski. Who finds Quaid in a bar... RON HOWARD(Gung Ho,Backdraft,Far And Away,Parenthood and Ransom) who does a great directing job making the movie very realistic based on stress.
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Summary: Strangely Overlooked
Review: I can never figure out why people see the movies they do. "The Paper" is an excellent example. It has a phenomenal cast: Michael Keaton Marisa Tomei Robert Duvall Glenn Close It is made by one of Hollywood's most successful directors--Ron Howard. Finally, the story is a wonderfully energetic and often very funny account of 24 hours in the life of a New York tabloid paper--sort of like His Girl Friday updated for the 1990s. But NOBODY saw this film. Inexplicable. The Insider was similarly overlooked, and it was considerably more acclaimed. I have a theory. In the 1990s people just don't want to see movies of any type that are about journalism.
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Summary: Highly Entertaining Film!!
Review: I realy enjoyed this film with it's funny poigant look at life, work, love and making it all work. Michael Keaton realy outdoes himself in a funny but demanding role as a workaholic metro editor for a Newspaper who is prssured by his pregnant wife to take a cushier desk job at a rival newspaper, and at the same time going head to head with a no nonsense managing editor played by Glen Close on a story about two black youths who he beleives are innocent in a double murder that could start a race war. The movie moves from comedy to drama back to comedy that it keeps your attention for nealy two hours. And how often you see great acting talent like this film showcases. Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, SEINFELD'S Jason Alexander and the late Jason Robards. The Paper Is a great film filled such intensity it's impossible to overlook this film.
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Summary: Black and white and Keaton all over
Review: If you appreciate the energy Michael Keaton brings to the movies, see THE PAPER. It depicts 24 hours in the lives of a New York tabloid crew. The drama of their private lives rivals that of the news they cover. I liked some parts of it better than others but held on for the next Keaton scene. To know why Michael Keaton's a great film actor, look no further than THE PAPER.
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Summary: The Knife Turns Again
Review: If you want to know pain.
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Summary: Because your whole world can change in 24 hours
Review: Is the theme of this film, one of the best films I have ever seen at the only movie I have ever seen eight times in the theater. Yes, I saw ONE movie eight times in the movie theater, but the thing is I never got sick of it. I'm already a bit biased given Michael Keaton is my all time favorite actor, but I love this movie for so many more reasons. The acting by Michael, Marisa Tomei, Robert Duval, Randy Quaid and Glen Glose is just exceptional, and Ron Howards directing is on the mark as always.
There are also some good cameos by the late William Kunstler and Jason Robards. There's also a hillarious cameo by Bob Costas which I won't give away, you've just gotta see it:) Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) has a grueling job as an editor at The New York Sun (my guess being it's supposed to be a ficitional verison of The New York Post judging by such front page headlines as "No Parking Except For Me" and "Gotcha") that usually keeps him from his wife nine months pregnant wife Martha (Marisa Tomei) 24/7, so she's pressuring him to get a cushier job at The New York Sentinal (fictional version of The New York Times based on their mantra of "We Cover The World.") Henry of course doesn't want to be out of the action that makes him down Cokes and Tums all day, and finds himself subconsciously sabatoging the interview in the pursuit of finding out the truth behind a grizzly murder and exonerate the two boys arrested for the murder whom he knows in his gut are innocent. The movie takes place during these twenty four hours; from battling with bosses, to fights, to shootings to a father trying to make ammends with his daughter he neglected; this movie shows a day in the life of five people as they try to find the truth behind the murder and the truth about their lifes. Because your whole world can change in twenty-four hours.
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