We all have dreams and hopes. Some of us fulfill our dreams while others stop and fail. How long must we wait and how long must we strive to make sure our dreams lead us to success? In the movie, Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams stars as Becky Fuller, an aspiring news producer who just got laid off from her job at Good Morning New Jersey. She decides to send out her resumes to different companies and ends up getting a call from a national network morning show called DayBreak, a program that is struggling with its ratings because it is competing with another more popular morning show called Today. She gets hired to be the executive producer and decides to fire a conceited co-host on her first day. They applaud her. Now, she needs a new co-host for Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). So begins her life in DayBreak...
After screening many audition tapes, she decides to ask Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), a veteran television journalist, if he would be interested to be the co-host of the show. Being under contract in the same network as DayBreak, despite his hesitance to work in the said show, he had to do it due to a clause that he has misread from his contract. He is left with no option but to do it or otherwise he would lose his monthly salary. As he begins his work there, Becky begins to date Adam (Patrick Wilson), also a producer in the same network. Hell begins for Becky at the same time as Mike continues to refuse everything that isn't related to serious, hard and heavy hitting news as he believes that in his contract, he is only allowed to deliver such kinds of news. Disappointed, she tries to do her best to make ends meet.
The tension between Colleen Peck and Mike Pomeroy seems evident on air and off air. As both of them continue to bicker and do not get along very well, their chemistry on air only makes the show unbearable to watch. As the ratings continue to drop, Becky is told that if the ratings of their show do not improve, it might end up being cancelled. Frustrated but didn't want to give up, she decides to change everything in the show. She improves the ratings as she persuades the weather man, Ernie, to do some stunts while doing the weather report. Colleen also expressed interest in her campaign and decided to do some interesting segments of her own.
Unfortunately for Becky as the ratings of the show continue to go up, her love life seems to be going down hill. Adam feels like she is concentrating too much on her work and doesn't have time to be in a relationship. Mike tells her being a workaholic is one reason why he ended up with no life outside work. While on a staff meeting, Mike tells Becky that he is interested in doing a story which surprised her and her colleagues. Feeling the need to be supportive, she tags along Mike to where the location of the story is. She later on realizes that they are going somewhere else. Mike ends up going to a governor's house and decides to confront him about his racketeeting. He then breaks the story of his arrest on television which boosts the ratings up once more.
Due to the show's popularity, Becky receives a job interview from Today. At first she didn't want to go but after being treated badly by Mike once more, she decided to go. While on the interview, DayBreak was on. While on break, Colleen tells Mike about Becky and the interview, panicking, he decides to go to the kitchen to cook in front of the camera. Surprised by what she saw, Becky cancelled her interview and went back to DayBreak only to see Mike's form of apology. She smiles as now she knows that Mike will finally no longer be a liability to the team but rather an asset. His new image has paid off in the end as more and more people watch the show, more and more people find his new persona appealing. Finally the shows continues to become successful and Becky fulfills her dreams. She even gets Adam in the end.
I loved the movie because it was funny and heartwarming at the same time. I loved the cast as they all made the movie possible. Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford had chemistry in this movie and Rachel McAdams looked convincing as a workaholic executive producer of a morning show. I never knew how much effort people behind the camera put in order to create an interesting morning show but now I do. I admire Becky in the movie for no matter how hard and depressing things got, she still did her best to dust herself off and try again. In the end, everything paid off. Would I recommend this movie to anyone? Yes, I would. Why? Because it was an interesting movie with a good plot, wonderful dialogue and most of all colorful characters. What more can you ask for?
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After screening many audition tapes, she decides to ask Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), a veteran television journalist, if he would be interested to be the co-host of the show. Being under contract in the same network as DayBreak, despite his hesitance to work in the said show, he had to do it due to a clause that he has misread from his contract. He is left with no option but to do it or otherwise he would lose his monthly salary. As he begins his work there, Becky begins to date Adam (Patrick Wilson), also a producer in the same network. Hell begins for Becky at the same time as Mike continues to refuse everything that isn't related to serious, hard and heavy hitting news as he believes that in his contract, he is only allowed to deliver such kinds of news. Disappointed, she tries to do her best to make ends meet.
The tension between Colleen Peck and Mike Pomeroy seems evident on air and off air. As both of them continue to bicker and do not get along very well, their chemistry on air only makes the show unbearable to watch. As the ratings continue to drop, Becky is told that if the ratings of their show do not improve, it might end up being cancelled. Frustrated but didn't want to give up, she decides to change everything in the show. She improves the ratings as she persuades the weather man, Ernie, to do some stunts while doing the weather report. Colleen also expressed interest in her campaign and decided to do some interesting segments of her own.
Unfortunately for Becky as the ratings of the show continue to go up, her love life seems to be going down hill. Adam feels like she is concentrating too much on her work and doesn't have time to be in a relationship. Mike tells her being a workaholic is one reason why he ended up with no life outside work. While on a staff meeting, Mike tells Becky that he is interested in doing a story which surprised her and her colleagues. Feeling the need to be supportive, she tags along Mike to where the location of the story is. She later on realizes that they are going somewhere else. Mike ends up going to a governor's house and decides to confront him about his racketeeting. He then breaks the story of his arrest on television which boosts the ratings up once more.
Due to the show's popularity, Becky receives a job interview from Today. At first she didn't want to go but after being treated badly by Mike once more, she decided to go. While on the interview, DayBreak was on. While on break, Colleen tells Mike about Becky and the interview, panicking, he decides to go to the kitchen to cook in front of the camera. Surprised by what she saw, Becky cancelled her interview and went back to DayBreak only to see Mike's form of apology. She smiles as now she knows that Mike will finally no longer be a liability to the team but rather an asset. His new image has paid off in the end as more and more people watch the show, more and more people find his new persona appealing. Finally the shows continues to become successful and Becky fulfills her dreams. She even gets Adam in the end.
I loved the movie because it was funny and heartwarming at the same time. I loved the cast as they all made the movie possible. Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford had chemistry in this movie and Rachel McAdams looked convincing as a workaholic executive producer of a morning show. I never knew how much effort people behind the camera put in order to create an interesting morning show but now I do. I admire Becky in the movie for no matter how hard and depressing things got, she still did her best to dust herself off and try again. In the end, everything paid off. Would I recommend this movie to anyone? Yes, I would. Why? Because it was an interesting movie with a good plot, wonderful dialogue and most of all colorful characters. What more can you ask for?
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