Morning Glory / Rated PG-13 for language, one of the main characters in her underwear and some drinking and talk of drugs. Rachel McAdams plays perky 28 year old Becky, hard working All American girl TV news show producer. RM herself will be 32 on 11/17/2010 but that's close enough. She is fired from her morning news/feature show in a small New Jersey market and is on the hunt for a job. In NY she is offered a position without much chance of success on a major TV network the fictional IBS where complications ensue. There she runs into a cast of also rans. Last in the morning sweepstakes ratings the show is called Morning Glory. Diane Keaton is the anchor along with a host of other not so great TV personalities. RM under threat of cancellation by her new boss Jeff Goldblum finds a contractual clause in the agreement with legendary newsman Harrison Ford. She pressures him into joining the show. He doesn't like it. HF plays an irascible character, non smiling and always in ill humor. DK is the beleaguered co anchor who is in competition with HF over who gets to say "goodbye" at the end of the show. Everything turns from bad to worse. RM's dates don't turn out well. Like Rodney Dangerfield she "gets no respect". The movie moves along okay for 70 minutes then the script goes from adequate to forest fire fast. RM tries some new ideas and the show starts to show an increase in the ratings. The last 25 minutes are full of hilarity and the characters joining together to make the show work and the audience laugh. She succeeds. They succeed. We all get to laugh a lot. Her success is never really in doubt but the way it's done works well all around. HF and DK are dead on. JG is fine in his role as the boss. The supporting characters on the show are all superb in adding just the right amount of support and humor at the same time. RM who recently had the plum role of Sherlock Holmes nemesis and dream lady in the Robert Downey and Jude Law version of SH playing Irene Adler is supposedly returning to that role again in the first of two sequels coming up in 2011 and later. I would also like to see her back as Perky Becky. Rated 3.0 out of 4.0 early mornings. Goodbye.
Review of Morning Glory
