Brooks is the producer behind films like Bottle Rocket, Say Anything, and Big, and TV series like Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, and The Simpsons. We root for Albert Brooks’s Aaron Altman, the brainy, nervous, serious journalist who competes for the affections of neurotic producer Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) against the impossibly polished (and intellectually inferior) Tom Grunick (William Hurt). After the slap-happy, very silly, and very male comedies of the late ’70s and early ’80s (think Animal House, Porky’s, and Revenge of the Nerds), and alongside epic big-budget projects like Ghostbusters and the original Indiana Jones, Brooks continued to redefine what rom-coms could be with this sprawling, occasionally dramatic, but never self-serious workplace comedy. Brooks, and Broadcast News was their meeting ground. In the mid to late ’80s, there was nothing bigger than TV news and James L. The initial gathering of candidates was great fun the subsequent reaping, less so. When the call went out, we heard from writers, editors, friends, moms, therapists, bartenders, people we hadn’t talked to since high school-the list goes on. They talk about them differently than other movies, and they like to talk about them a lot. People keep a special place in their hearts for romantic comedies. It’s for this reason that we had such a good time making this list, at least initially.and lots of help. Maybe it’s the best for a certain time period. But maybe you have some reservations about the horrifyingly racist overtones in some of the movie’s scenes, even though you can’t help loving Audrey Hepburn. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is obviously the best rom-com of all time.” And they may not be wrong. Your uncle or roommate might say, “That’s stupid.
Something is funny when someone laughs or romantic when their heart swells, for better or for worse, and we have no right to say why one of these should top another.
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