“Fun, Adventure, Romance on $75 a Week”
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.
Joan Micklin Silver
Raphael D. Silver
Fred Barron
Kenneth Van Sickle
John Heard
Harry
Lindsay Crouse
Abbie
Jeff Goldblum
Max
Jill Eikenberry
Lynn
Bruno Kirby
David
Gwen Welles
Laura
Stephen Collins
Michael
Lewis J. Stadlen
Stanley
Jon Korkes
Frank
Michael J. Pollard
The Hawker
Lane Smith
Roy Walsh
Joe Morton
Ahmed
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CinemaSerf
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 ...
BETWEEN THE LINES (1977) - Trailer
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