Murder Live!
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| Starring | David Morse, Eloy Casados, Michael Cullen, Christine Estabrook, Teri Garr, Marg Helgenberger | |
| Directed by | Roger Spottiswoode | |
| Studio | Image Entertainment | |
| Released | August 10, 2004 | |
| Runtime | 92 minutes | |
| IMDB Info | 0119730 on IMDb | |
| Buy it from | Amazon.com on DVD | |
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I started watching this movie by accident, because I didn't turn off the thing I had been watching before it. However, after starting this, I didn't want to turn it off, mainly because I rate all talk-show hosts as a form of life right down there with pond scum, and this movie is a smack in the face to them and their pretentious, phony shows. David Morse is very convincing as Frank McGrath, and Marg Helgenberger also does a good job as the painfully stuck-up and arrogant talk-show host. It takes stabs at almost every part of the American trash-watching society, from grossly indifferent viewers who only want to watch the baseball playoffs, to highly insecure people who use talk-shows as a way of patting themselves on the back, and to the feel-good faux-psychologists who spout pointless yammerings to make the audience nod and clap. All of these and more, tonight on WYSB. Ahem. The spotlight is also shown largely on McGrath and the host, whose glaringly opposite personalities provide most of the grist for the movie. Also thrown in are police and certain members of the audience, generally to spice things up. The flick ends with a bang, and at its heights was far better than most of the studio movies I watched that year, I think.
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- Product Description
Enraged by his daughter's suicide caused by an unauthorized TV talk show segment, Frank McGrath (The Green Mile's David Morse) takes ego-driven hostess Pia Postman (CSI's Marg Helgenberger) hostage. With the show's crew and audience frozen at gunpoint and the threat of a bomb, the clock is ticking and the ultimate showdown is about to begin. Also features Teri Garr (Tootsie), Peter Horton (thirtysomething), Christine Estabrook (The Usual Suspects), Lauren Tom (Bad Santa), Eloy Casados (Dark Blue), Neal McDonough (Walking Tall) . This provocative, white-knuckle thriller from director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) examines the "trash talk" television phenomenon and the issue of broadcast responsibility.
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