There's never a dull minute in this made-for-cable adaptation of broadcast journalist Robert Wiener's first-person account of the rise of CNN. 1990: Six months before war with Iraq erupts, CNN executives dispatch a production team to the troubled country. Reporter Robert Weiner (Michael Keaton), known for getting results, campaigns to become the cable network's eyes in Baghdad. Weiner's brashness is balanced by his more restrained co-producer, Ingrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter), sound technician Judy Parker (Lili Taylor) and cameraman Mark Biello (Joshua Leonard). Unlike his impatient colleagues at the broadcast networks, Wiener is savvy enough to curry favor wit...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins