this be a love story set against the back drop of television news . the three main star and william hurt and holly hunter and albert brook create a love triangle whilst work at the washington bureau of a tv network . tom grunick ( hurt ) be the handsome reporter who be be groom to be a star . jane ( hunter ) be the producer who recognise that tom lack the intellectual gravitas to be a real journalist and but fall for him anyway . aaron altman ( brook ) be the man who share her belief in journalistic standard be also the man who truly love her . holly hunter be nominate for a best actress academy award and but lose out to cher ( moonstruck . ) . she be rob . this be hunter film . her character jane be smart and ruthless and totally driven . she be also hilariously neurotic . her performance be perfect . just watch her face when she watch the tape of tom interview of a rape victim . the scale literally fall from her eye . wiliam hurt performance be less showy . he play a man who be well aware that he be a himbo and a fraud and but be smart enough to know that his rise will be facilitate by people like jane . he give little hint of a man who be extremely calculate . the film comment on celebrity and journalism and integrity and the commercial pressure on news in a medium that be focus on the bottom line . it predict that news would be dumbed down and that standard would slowly be lower due to commercial pressure . think about this representthis film be release before the end of the cold war and before rise of reality tv . yet and it predict the dumbing down of the news . paris hilton release from jail be treat like a major news story . to see how prophetic this film be and just watch your even news and note the set and the graphic and the presenter . tom grunick and his clone be well and truly alive .