MORNING GLORY (12A).
Comedy. Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Wilson, Ty Burrell, Patti D’Arbanville, Matt Molloy. Director: Roger Michell.
Laden with polished one-liners, Morning Glory is a frothy comedy based around a shambolic TV breakfast show called Daybreak.
%movie(8859) Scriptwriter Aline Brosh McKenna hasn’t been drawing inspiration from the critically lambasted replacement for GMTV.
Instead, she breathes in the jaded air of American network morning shows, which gently rouse viewers from their slumber with a blend of news and light-hearted human interest stories.
Against this backdrop of on-air calamity, McKenna charts the rise of an ambitious woman.
Becky Fuller (McAdams) is one of the brightest stars at Good Morning New Jersey, but her sterling efforts are rewarded with redundancy.
Unperturbed, the young producer telephones every network searching for a job to the despair of her mother (Patti D’Arbanville), who wants her daughter to give up her dream of working in television.
Thankfully, New York network manager, Jerry Barnes (Jeff Goldblum), comes to Becky's rescue.
He offers her the poisoned chalice of Daybreak, the station’s breakfast show which ranks a lowly third in the ratings.
Morning Glory is a hoot, distinguished by a scenery-chewing performance from Harrison Ford as a revered newsman.
* 7 out of 10
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