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The Paper (1994)
Rate:
6
Viewed:
9/23
9/23:
The Paper is a ridiculously overdone play-on-movie about the newspaper industry.
Granted, the cast is stunning: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, and Jason
Alexander. That's four Oscar wins among twenty-three nominations, but none of them turns in a great performance here.
They all, more or less, overact.
Can you believe the size of the belly on Marisa Tomei? That's crazy. She never had kids of her own, so it was faked
for the film. Of course, somebody had to yell the most clichéd line of all time in the newspaper business: "Stop the presses!"
All in all, although The Paper is energetic, The Front Page, especially the
Billy Wilder's version, had already covered everything.