Morning Glory: Now on DVD

See this movie! It is a wonderfully warm, funny, inspiring, cheesey, and involving bit of escapism.


Rachel McAdams churns out a thoroughly hokey performance as Becky Fuller, a young ambitious morning "news" show producer. I say "news" in quotes because these are the types of morning shows that focus on new cooking recipes, celebrity gossip, and other types of mindless early morning entertainment.


Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) must take this failing morning news show dinosaur that is in the basement of ratings and try to turn it around. It's fun to watch Diane Keaton playing the willing morning show hostess, and the scene-stealing legend Harrison Ford, (who is the real anchor of this movie). Appropriately enough, Harrison Ford's character is a legend of the news world.


Jeff Goldblum, who is one of my favorite actors, also plays a smaller role as a network manager who must control television programming.


Morning Glory is charming because it is not overly pretentious. Rachel McAdams brings an element of cheese to her character, but it doesn't detract too much from the overall story. It's still a fun romp that had me laughing out loud. I had the pleasure of seeing this on the big screen, but it is even better as a rental. Just have fun with it, and don't expect too much.



my rating: 3.5 stars out of 5















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