Switching Channels
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Switching Channels is a 1988 comedic movie remake of The Front Page (also more famously remade as His Girl Friday in 1940). It stars Kathleen Turner as Christy Colleran, Burt Reynolds as John L. Sullivan IV, Christopher Reeve as Blaine Bingham, Ned Beatty as Roy Ridnitz, Henry Gibson as Ike Roscoe, and George Newbern as Sigenthaler
The film uses only the basic premise of The Front Page and His Girl Friday. All of the characters' names are changed, the story is modernized to what was then the present day, and none of the dialogue from the play is used in the film.
The film was not commercially successful. It temporarily derailed the career of Christopher Reeve, who played against type as the hapless fiancé.
[edit] Synopsis
Sullivan (Reynolds) is a cable TV news mogul. He tries to prevent the impending marriage of Colleran (Turner), his best reporter and ex-wife, by keeping her on the job during the critical news coverage of an upcoming execution and prison break.
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The film features two Superman actors - Christopher Reeve, who starred in all four of the films made between 1978 and 1987, and George Newbern, who would provide the voice of Superman for Bruce Timm's Justice League series.
This film features two Superman movies actors - Christopher Reeve, and Ned Beatty, who played "Otis" in the two first Superman films. They also worked in the 1976 film "Gray lady down".
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