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Films like Broadcast News.

Broadcast News (1987) reads as Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Risky Business (1983) poster
1. Risky Business1983

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Beautiful Girls (1996) poster
2. Beautiful Girls1996

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Barcelona (1994) poster
3. Barcelona1994

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Big Chill (1983) poster
4. The Big Chill1983

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Diner (1982) poster
5. Diner1982

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.

High Fidelity (2000) poster
6. High Fidelity2000

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005) poster
7. By the Pricking of My Thumbs2005

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Brothers McMullen (1995) poster
8. The Brothers McMullen1995

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Reality Bites (1994) poster
9. Reality Bites1994

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a airy, open telling.

The Daytrippers (1996) poster
10. The Daytrippers1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Theatre (1978) poster
11. Theatre1978

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Sneakers (1992) poster
12. Sneakers1992

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

These are Broadcast News’s neighbours — where are yours?

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