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The Paper [DVD] [1994]

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  • Actors: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
  • Directors: Ron Howard
  • Writers: David Koepp, Stephen Koepp
  • Producers: Aldric La'Auli Porter, Brian Grazer, David Koepp, Dylan Sellers, Frederick Zollo
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Uca Catalogue
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Jun 2004
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005N53X
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,778 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Production Notes
Cast and Filmmakers' Biographies
Language - English, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles - English, French, German, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Dolby Digital 5.1 - Surround Sound
Dual Layer 1.85:1



Synopsis

Ron Howard directed this lightning-paced, high-energy drama following one day in the life of Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), a frantic metro editor for a fictitious New York tabloid. While investigating the apparently race-related killing of two white businessmen found murdered in their car, Hackett discovers a conspiracy by the police involving the falsely arrested black youths. With the help of his very pregnant wife, Martha (Marisa Tomei), he scoops the competition by uncovering a connection to the mob. But his editor, the acerbic penny-pinching Alicia (Glenn Close), questions the validity of his findings and refuses to print the story. Curmudgeonly managing editor Bernie White (Robert Duvall) tries to stop his two editors from fighting while losing a battle for his own health. THE PAPER features a terrific supporting cast, including Jason Robards as the paper's publisher, Randy Quaid as a paranoid columnist, Jason Alexander as a corrupt politician, and Spalding Gray as a New York Times-type editor. However, the movie belongs to Keaton himself, as an ambitious, harried reporter in search of the big story. Two brothers--screenwriter David Koepp and Time magazine editor Stephen Koepp, collaborated on the screenplay. To lend realism to the film, Howard rounded up a large group of media figures to make cameos, including Kurt Loder, Pete Hamill, Bob Costas, Richard Price, William Kunstler, Jane Hanson, E. Graydon Carter, and others.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fast moving, entertaining story starring the lovely Marisa T, 28 Oct 2000
This review is from: The Paper [1994] [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This movie has Keaton enjoying himself as the newspaper man trying to live up to his principles (journalist's principles!), balancing his ambition with the needs of his heavily pregnant (and ambitious) journalist wife (Tomei). Full of very cleaver moments, excellent casting and superb acting from a highly professional cast list. All benefit from the light touch of the one and only Ron Howard (Ritchie Cunningham in Happy Days)in the director's chair. This movie is a joy to watch, with some brilliant touchs but does not challenge the brain too much. If you like interlinking stories/characters coming together into a grand finale, then don't miss The Paper. For Tomei fans then this is the lady at her comic/dramatic peak although far from the depth of her later work. A very good buy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A man stuck between journalism of the past and the future., 23 Jul 2009
Tragically underrated look at the death of news. Michael Keaton plays one of the last of the old school journalists working in a world driven by corporate profits. The film is a tale of how those profits come before actually telling the truth.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I will not and I shall not tell a lie !, 27 Mar 2006
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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This is probably not a masterpiece but it is a good film. It shows with some realism the hectic life journalism leads to. To be a journalist is to have a completely crazy life in which family, friends, regularity are dreams you cannot in any way respect or just entertain. That kind of atmosphere has already been shown and used in other films. But this film insists on the social, moral and human responsibility that a journalist must live for and with : never tell something that is not true if you know it is not true, in one word you must never lie. You might be wrong, misinformed or many other things but what you publish you must believe - and even know - it is the truth. Then to pair this fight for journalistic ethics to the birth of one's own son or child, is a marvellous idea. For a journalist it is the most important and most exhilarating fact in life to be told his or her article is the truth, especially if it enables two young black teenagers to be freed and exonerated from a false accusation. This kind of film should be shown to all our young people for them to learn that what is important in life is not money, nor what they believe in or think, but only what is true, and that a man must be absolutely free to tell the truth, all the truth, nothing but the truth.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

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