Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like th... (Full plot summary below)
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Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability...but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAn overwrought, hysterical drama about the newspaper business that doesn't begin to compare to Hollywood's classics of the genre (The Front Page). The film has an absurdly frantic pace but it's so romantically naive and unsubtle that nothing registers |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWatching The Paper got me in touch all over again with how good it feels to work at the top of your form, on a story you believe in, on deadline. |
| Washington PostJoe BrownThanks to a caffeinated cast and hyperactive script, director Ron Howard delivers The Paper with a bang. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe characterizations, the eccentricities, the feverish sense of pursuing a deadline story and an awful lot of other particulars that show just how defiantly dedicated and frenetically frenzied the members of the fourth estate can be, are dead on. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames SanfordEnjoyable, if utterly unrealistic look at journalism |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyThe inside-baseball feel of the newsroom material (co-writer Stephen Koepp did time in the trenches) is what makes 'The Paper' sing. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDragan AntulovA film that should be recommended as skillfully done example of almost forgotten dramatic subgenre. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumJoBloEntertaining, extremely informative, rapidly-paced film that literally puts you on the front lines with the cast and crew who fabricate the news stories which we read in our newspapers every day. |
| Fantastica DailyChuck O'LearyOne of Ron Howard's most underrated films. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsScott RenshawIt's a bit too busy and precocious for its own good, but still has enough of a charming throwback quality that I was willing to forgive many of its flaws. |
