![]() But perhaps most importantly the film examines the modern obsession with physical appearance and its ultimate triumph over intellect as a valued human attribute. Its also a film about attraction and unfulfilled romance. At the very least it is a brilliant comedy with the one liners flying so thick and fast that each viewing bears a new harvest of ones that you may have missed last time. The classical love triangle emerges with the stunningly witty and self deprecating Brookes in love with Hunter but she of course is attracted to Hurt. William Hurt is the affable but dumb new kid on the block, news anchor. ![]() ![]() Albert Brookes plays the unprepossessing but brilliant journalist. Holly Hunter is the obsessive workaholic producer. ![]() Its about the tangled lives of three very different people. For me this wonderful rollercoaster of a film bears repeated pleasurable viewings. ![]()
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