Between the Lines (1977)

★ 5.2 1h 41m IMDb
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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.

Between the Lines

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Cast

John Heard
John Heard as Harry Died 2017 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA John Heard Jr. (March 7, 1946 – July 21, 2017) was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977).
Lindsay Crouse
Lindsay Crouse as Abbie Age 77 · New York City, New York, USA Lindsay Ann Crouse is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the 1972 revival of Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in her first film in 1976 in All the President's Men. For her role in...
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum as Max Age 73 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of his era, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (199...
Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry as Lynn Age 79 · New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Jill Susan Eikenberry (born January 21, 1947) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as lawyer Ann Kelsey on the NBC drama L.A. Law, for which she is a five-time...
Bruno Kirby
Bruno Kirby as David Died 2006 · New York City, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bruno Kirby (April 28, 1949 – August 14, 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films City Sl...
Gwen Welles
Gwen Welles as Laura Died 1993 · Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Gwen Welles (née Goldberg; March 4, 1951 – October 13, 1993) was an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of singer Sueleen Gay in Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville, which earned her...

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CinemaSerf 6/10 Apr 20, 2023
The twenty-something staff of the erstwhile quite radical newspaper "Mainline" are struggling to keep their work relevant as the 1970s give way to the 1980s. I don't know if anyone remembers a television drama called the "Paper Chase" (1973) but a lot of the style and characterisations of that film are reminiscent here. Young people trying to make their own way, defiantly trying to hold on to values and commitments that may be largely on the wain. The thing with this, for me anyway, was I found them all rather shallow and selfish. The combination of their working and social lives are presented in a fashion that is very, very, verbose. Why use one word when you can use eight? As the story drifts along, I felt less and less interested in the characters and their semi-comic antics and started to notice silly continuity errors - that wouldn't ordinarily matter - and to focus more on the tangential aspects of the film - the big collars, bell-bottom jeans - all the things I used to remember from "Starsky and Hutch". Maybe the fact that I'm not an American means that this Bostonian story of intellectual maturity and liberating camaraderie doesn't resonate in the same way - because I found this all rather dull. Will their newspaper be subsumed into a bigger, commercial, enterprise? Well at the start I hoped not, but by the middle I was indifferent.

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