Morning Glory

Last night we watched this Rachel McAdams movie. McAdams who I first remembered from The Wedding Crashers plays a much different role in this movie. As Becky Fuller a young woman who has dreamed of working in television news since being a little girl McAdams does not have to stretch far to play the plucky " cute" girl.

Mary Tyler Moore thirty years later would not be a bad set up and in this movie it is quite effective.

After being fired from her job at Good Morning New Jersey she is hired at the network IBS, which is struggling in it's morning show. On her first day she fires the moronic male co host, played by Modern Family's Ty Burrell and is left with just Collen Peck, the long suffering female host. Diane Keaton is very good as Collen.

The show continues to falter, desperate Becky asks about Mike Pomeroy, a veteran of 40 years of hard news, who under contract to the network but living a hermit's existence at home is available. After perusing his contract she visits him and tells him to come to the show or he will have to forfeit the millions left on his contract.

As one would expect he comes begrudgingly. He is a pain in the ass. Confronted with her newsman hero acting like a jackass Becky is perplexed and hurt. Finally told the show is to be cancelled she begs for time, and makes radical changes.

Mike eventually has a softening and the show starts to show signs of life. Due to her success Becky is offered a promotion, she is not going to take it feeling that her new show is a family, Mike disappoints again, setting us up for the aplogoy and reconciliation.

One thing in watching these four movies I ahe reviewed here today is that scriptwriting on many films is just following a formula.

Not a terrible movie, McAdams is perky and cute, Ford is grumpy and old, and Keaton is kind of nondescript. I think it should have been better however with all that star power.