Morning Glory

The advertising makes you think this is a James Brooks kind of comedy like "As Good as it Gets" or Nancy Meyer's "Something's Gotta Give" or But no, its written by Aline Brosh McKenna. She wrote the screenplay for "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Laws of Attraction".

While she appears good at making film deals, she obviously knows nothing about TV. If she did, she'd realize the first thing they would have done is fire Colleen Peck to make the show younger, less expensive and attract a younger demographic. But no, instead she makes the show OLDER by hiring cranky Mike Pomeroy.

McKenna also seems to know little about romance, love or humans in general judging by the scenes between Fuller and boring boy toy Bennett.

She also seems to believe TV's are two-way communications devices. How else would Mike Pomeroy know that the plucky Fuller would be watching the show while being interviewed at NBC for a "Today Show" job?

And speaking of that, why would "The Today Show" interview her in the morning at 8am when a.) They should be attending to the business of producing that day's "Today Show" b.) Fuller should be at the studio producing her show, "Daybreak". Shouldn't this meeting have been conducted at a time when their respective shows were off the air?

The sloppy direction also manages to not pay attention to time. When dull boy toy Bennett suggests Fuller meet him at a bar after work at 8, note how incredibly bright it is outside when she gets there, about 8:30 or so.

This film doesn't pay attention to itself. I see no reason why you should.

Hotty Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) gets fired from her job at AM New Jersey or some such show and goes job hunting. Thanks to her plucky nature and bombarding people with resumes, she winds up getting offered the much better job of executive producer of the 4th rated "Daybreak" morning show on the IBS network in New York City.  She fires the convieniently jerky news anchor and decides to replace him with veteran journalist Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford). Pommeroy doesn't get along with the plucky Fuller or his co-host Collenn Pack or anybody else for that matter.

They only have a short time to save the show before the network director (Jeff Goldblum) pulls the plug on the show. Can they find a way to work together and save the show?

Who cares?

Diane Keaton.

--Morley Safer, Chris Matthews and Bob Scheiffer play crotchity old newsmen friends of Pomeroy.

--Former "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt plays Joe the Cameraman.

--50 cent appears as himself.

At 64 she's not Annie Hall anymore or the wonderfully funny Sonja in "Love and Death", but she still has the comic chops to rise above inferior material.

Rachel McAdams is undeniably hot. Unfortunately the closest she gets to being naked is a scene where she drops her skirt and runs around with Patrick Wilson in her panties (she's in the panties, not Wilson, who just WANTS to get into her panties). I liked her in the Sherlock Holmes movie and she was nice eye candy in "Wedding Crashers" and she's really cute here. But not cute enough to ever watch this film again.