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- 1994
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1994
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Summary New York City tabloid editor Henry's faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer.
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: David Koepp, Stephen Koepp
- 1994
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 1994
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
The Paper
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Summary New York City tabloid editor Henry's faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer.
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: David Koepp, Stephen Koepp
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
70
83% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
17% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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It's an exhausting and exhilarating movie about the birth of "the daily miracle." Thanks to a caffeinated cast and hyperactive script, director Ron Howard delivers The Paper with a bang.
It's very perceptive about the relationships among its characters - how they talk, how they compete, what their values are. And Howard has cast the movie with splendid veteran actors, who are able to convey all the little quirks and idiosyncrasies of real people.
The chaos, the confusion, the ongoing struggle between personality and purpose, The Paper really gets the beat, gets how a paper comes together and the beat at which that happens.
The Paper is a crowd pleaser, and, regardless of any viewer's experience (or lack thereof) with the behind-the-scenes wrangling that goes on in newspaper offices, the story is affable and entertaining. While there are no startling revelations, the film's atmosphere contains enough strength of realism that more than one viewer may momentarily think of the goings-on at The Sun as they sit down with their morning cup of coffee and look at the day's headlines.
If The Paper were a newspaper story, a savvy editor would demand a rewrite. [25 March 1994, p.AE13]
The movie captures exactly why those of us who do this for a living can't seem to shed ourselves of it: that crazed, dizzying, exhausting sense of being, if ever so briefly, where it's happening; and the sense that somewhere out there in the great unknown landscape that is our readership is somebody who cares what we write. The movie understands what draws people to Suns both real and imaginary.
The Paper never stops for breath long enough to be dull. But all this tumult also leads to a feeling of shellshock, of having every contrivance not nailed down thrown at the audience. Part of the problem is that many of these subplots, like Henry’s marital difficulties, are no more than Hollywood serious, dealing with adult situations in a bogus way that would be better avoided.
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