![]() ![]() On the whole, Morning Glory isn't going to sweep any of the major awards, but it's a gentle way to pass two hours and get a few good laughs in the process. A significant part of the the plot is his character's personal growth. Here he plays the gruffly lovable curmudgeon pretty well. ![]() While he hasn't had much success in the field, he is actually very good at comedy usually playing the straight man to what is going on around him. He gets in a few good zingers early on though. While an over stated, loud performance would have sufficed, Goldblum plays it a pragmatic working guy. While none of the cast is terrible, standing out are a low-key Jeff Goldblum, playing a cynical network executive. What really matters is how well the characters are written and how well the actors play their respective parts. A plot like this doesn't really have much in the way of surprises. and thus they are off toward saving the show. She is put in charge of an ailing morning program, and when told that it is on its last leg, she takes the novel and bizarre step of forcing well-respected television journalist Mike Pomeroy into the co-host position via a quirk of his contract. Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED-A husband. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home hed never had. Here we meet Becky Fuller, trying to make the jump from local to network news show producer. He drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer of 1941, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. Sometimes the audience takes a breather too. ![]() In that time between summer blockbusters and the full-on Oscar blitz is time for Hollywood to take a breather. ![]()
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