Morning Glory: Blu Ray Review
Morning Glory
Rating: M
Released by Universal
So it's into the heady world of breakfast television we go with
this frothy light comedy piece from the director of Notting
Hill.
Rachel McAdams stars as Becky Fuller, a producer on a television
news show. Fired from her current role, she ends up being offered
the job as a producer on a failing show called DayBreak.
Single and not tied down by relationships or family, Fuller lives
for the job and seizes the opportunity thrust her way by Jeff
Goldblum's laconic TV exec Jerry Barnes. On her first day she fires
weird co-anchor Paul McVee (played brilliantly by Modern Family's
Ty Burrell) and suddenly finds she needs a co host for Diane
Keaton's Colleen Peck
Enter Harrison Ford's prickly and slightly bitter former news
anchor Mike Pomeroy. Once a newsmaker and a newsbreaker, Pomeroy's
in the twilight of his career and not willing to sacrifice news
values for fluffier breakfast time pieces.
However, when Fuller's told DayBreak's on the verge of being
cancelled, she realizes she has to do everything she can to get
Mike into the swing of things to save all their jobs.
Morning Glory is as fluffy as the genre it's parodying but it's
kept alive by the performances of both McAdams as the annoyingly
perky and optimistic Fuller and Ford as the gruff and irritable co
anchor Pomeroy.
Unfortunately the end of Morning Glory sinks into a schmaltzy mire
(perhaps, inevitably) and the whole thing leaves a bit of a
saccharine taste in your mouth - overall, Morning Glory may well
appeal more to those in the television industry and the media
who'll recognize the egos, the debates and the problems; the rest
of us may well be wondering what else is on the other
channel.
Extras: Commentary by director; deleted scene -
not very much at all
Rating: 5/10
