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Article: SUNDAY TV: FILM REVIEW; Making the news; Up Close And Personal BBC1, 12.40am.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2003
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ROBERT REDFORD and Michelle Pfeiffer make a classy team in this sophisticated romantic drama based in the ruthless world of TV journalism.
Loosely based around events in the life of US TV newswoman Jessica Savitch, this is the sanitised story of a young woman, driven by nothing but ambition, making it to the top of the network old boys' club and getting set up for a fall.
Tally Atwater (Pfeiffer) is blonde and perky and doesn't know which end of the microphone is up.
Like real-life newswoman Savitch, she gets a break at a medium-sized station, ...