Switching Channels
– A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story...
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
04 Mar 1988
English
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Ted Kotcheff
Ben Hecht (play), Charles MacArthur (play), Jonathan Reynolds (screenplay)
Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty
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.
2 nominations.
Sony Pictures Entertainment