The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.
Acting
Jeff Goldblum's pre-fame Max is pure chaotic electricity.
Direction
Joan Micklin Silver captures newsroom grime with affection.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like exhausted idealists talking.
Director
Joan Micklin Silver
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