The Paper

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Summary: Smart, Smart, Funny Movie.
Review: This movie is about a day in the life of a New York tabloid and the people who pour life and soul into the paper. It's a marvelous cast and ensemble piece. It has some very funny lines and furious dialogue. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen this movie. I know every bit of the plot and just about every line in it. Yet is never fails to make me laugh nor am I even the slightest bit tempted to fast-forward to the punch line. Well worth having in your movie library.

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Summary: enjoyable about reporters and stress they have
Review: This movie zeros in on people using the newspaper for sensationalizum or truth and justice. Fortunately, these reports (Keaton, Quaid, Close and DuVal) did just that....Truth prevails in the end

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Summary: The Paper DVD is Full Screen
Review: This wasn't a bad film, in my view, 3 stars is still ok, just shows it is a slightly above average film. As stated in other reviews, the cast was just about top notch and contains many popular names, along with Keaton playing the main role. It's a day in the life of a New York City newspaper (not the major one however), and shows the challanges and decisions papers must face each day, and for that it creates interest and suspense for the viewer because it is done in an often times comical way.

However, perhaps my problem with this is that there are no redeeming qualities that put this film "over the edge". It's entertaining and worth watching, but, don't expect it to change your life or anything. I should point out however, the brilliant performance by often overlooked, Marisa Tomei, she shines in this film and actually makes the relationship between her and Keaton actually seem believable, when otherwise it wouldn't. For her performance, it puts it just over average and deserves 3 stars.

On a side note, perhaps I am just overlooking this film because of the age gap between me and the movie, many of the members of the cast are stars from a different generation and it is hard for me to relate, as a 21 year old, to some of them. So in all fairness, this may defend my rating from my perspective.

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Summary: Not bad...but..
Review: This wasn't a bad film, in my view, 3 stars is still ok, just shows it is a slightly above average film. As stated in other reviews, the cast was just about top notch and contains many popular names, along with Keaton playing the main role. It's a day in the life of a New York City newspaper (not the major one however), and shows the challanges and decisions papers must face each day, and for that it creates interest and suspense for the viewer because it is done in an often times comical way.

However, perhaps my problem with this is that there are no redeeming qualities that put this film "over the edge". It's entertaining and worth watching, but, don't expect it to change your life or anything. I should point out however, the brilliant performance by often overlooked, Marisa Tomei, she shines in this film and actually makes the relationship between her and Keaton actually seem believable, when otherwise it wouldn't. For her performance, it puts it just over average and deserves 3 stars.

On a side note, perhaps I am just overlooking this film because of the age gap between me and the movie, many of the members of the cast are stars from a different generation and it is hard for me to relate, as a 21 year old, to some of them. So in all fairness, this may defend my rating from my perspective.

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Summary: A must-see for journalism students
Review: Want to know what its *really* like to work for a newspaper? Then see this movie. The characters *are* sterotypical, with the grumpy old senior editor and the zany columnist, but you know what? That's exactly what real newspapers are like.

Some scenes are classics, like when Michael Keaton's character is constantly scrounging for quarters to buy a coke, or when one of the editors is complaining because he wants a specially-designed chair because of his bad back.

I was a reporter when I saw this movie, and I instantly recognized all these characters as variations on the folks I worked with every day. The maniac energy, the ethical criseses, the occasional editor who lives beyond his/her means -- all this stuff really does happen.

Anyone who's serious about being a reporter must rent both this and "All the President's Men".

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Summary: I don't live in the world. I live in New York City!!!
Review: With all of the action that takes place in the movie, it is hard to believe that it is only a 24-hour period. Henry wakes up to go to work, then he's at the hospital the next morning. The time frame is distorted, making the fact that the movie is only about a 24-hour segment virtually unknown.

"The Paper: A behind-the-lines look at work, marriage and other forms of combat."

"The Paper" is about Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), the metro editor at the New York Sun. His wife Martha (Marisa Tomei) is eight and a half months pregnant with their child. She also worked at the Sun before she went on maternity leave. Bernie White (Robert Duvall) is the editor of the Sun, who wants to reconnect with his daughter after receiving some bad news. Alicia Clark (Glenn Close) is the managing editor, who has lost touch with journalisic integrity since she was promoted. Mike McDougal (Randy Quaid) is a columnist, who claims that the parking commissioner is out to kill him.

The movie begins with two white business men being murdered and their car spray painted with racial slurs. Two young African-American boys are seen, but run after a woman screams thinking they did it. The Sun's rival paper has it as a cover story while the Sun runs a story about the parking commissioner.

Henry has an interview with the Sentinel, but steals their lead story. The job was his, but he tells them he has to think about it, and to talk to his wife first.

In the midst of following the information he got from the Sentinel, the boys from the crime scene are arrested. Henry and McDougal get a cop to comment that they aren't guilty because there isn't any evidence.

When Henry and McDougal get back to the Sun office to write up the story and get it in tomorrow's issue, the presses start. Henry and Alicia fight to stop the presses, he stops them, but she fires him and the presses start again.

After McDougal's car gets towed, he and Alicia go out for drinks. She wants to know what Henry meant when he told her that she'd become everything she used to hate. McDougal explained that she never would run anything that she knew wasn't true.

As Alicia calls to stop the presses, the parking commissioner is in the same bar and starts a fight with McDougal, yelling that he is going to kill him. When they talk the parking commissioner (Jason Alexander) into not kills McDougal, he fires at the wall. Alicia is on the other side of the wall and gets shot.

Henry goes home to find cop cars and an ambulance in front of his apartment building. He asks the doorman what happened and he said the paramedics went up to his apartment. Martha is hemorraging and the baby is in trouble.

Alicia declines to sign the consent form for surgery until she can use the phone. She calls to stop the press and runs Henry and McDougal's story that clears the two young ment. Martha has an emergency C-section. She and the baby boy are fine. Bernie goes to his daughter's house and sees that she is married with a baby.

Rating:
Summary: I don't live in the world. I live in New York City!!!
Review: With all of the action that takes place in the movie, it is hard to believe that it is only a 24-hour period. Henry wakes up to go to work, then he's at the hospital the next morning. The time frame is distorted, making the fact that the movie is only about a 24-hour segment virtually unknown.

"The Paper: A behind-the-lines look at work, marriage and other forms of combat."

"The Paper" is about Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), the metro editor at the New York Sun. His wife Martha (Marisa Tomei) is eight and a half months pregnant with their child. She also worked at the Sun before she went on maternity leave. Bernie White (Robert Duvall) is the editor of the Sun, who wants to reconnect with his daughter after receiving some bad news. Alicia Clark (Glenn Close) is the managing editor, who has lost touch with journalisic integrity since she was promoted. Mike McDougal (Randy Quaid) is a columnist, who claims that the parking commissioner is out to kill him.

The movie begins with two white business men being murdered and their car spray painted with racial slurs. Two young African-American boys are seen, but run after a woman screams thinking they did it. The Sun's rival paper has it as a cover story while the Sun runs a story about the parking commissioner.

Henry has an interview with the Sentinel, but steals their lead story. The job was his, but he tells them he has to think about it, and to talk to his wife first.

In the midst of following the information he got from the Sentinel, the boys from the crime scene are arrested. Henry and McDougal get a cop to comment that they aren't guilty because there isn't any evidence.

When Henry and McDougal get back to the Sun office to write up the story and get it in tomorrow's issue, the presses start. Henry and Alicia fight to stop the presses, he stops them, but she fires him and the presses start again.

After McDougal's car gets towed, he and Alicia go out for drinks. She wants to know what Henry meant when he told her that she'd become everything she used to hate. McDougal explained that she never would run anything that she knew wasn't true.

As Alicia calls to stop the presses, the parking commissioner is in the same bar and starts a fight with McDougal, yelling that he is going to kill him. When they talk the parking commissioner (Jason Alexander) into not kills McDougal, he fires at the wall. Alicia is on the other side of the wall and gets shot.

Henry goes home to find cop cars and an ambulance in front of his apartment building. He asks the doorman what happened and he said the paramedics went up to his apartment. Martha is hemorraging and the baby is in trouble.

Alicia declines to sign the consent form for surgery until she can use the phone. She calls to stop the press and runs Henry and McDougal's story that clears the two young ment. Martha has an emergency C-section. She and the baby boy are fine. Bernie goes to his daughter's house and sees that she is married with a baby.