Watch Switching Channels (1988) Free Online

Release Date: 1988

Cast: Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Henry Gibson, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty

Categories: Movies, Media Satire, Indie, Comedy

Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film 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 was notorious for its harsh infighting between Reynolds and Turner during filming, and the film was seen as a failure, commercially and critically. It is available on DVD in Regions 2 and 4. It is also available as a DVD-R in Region 1 through... MORE

Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film 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 was notorious for its harsh infighting between Reynolds and Turner during filming, and the film was seen as a failure, commercially and critically. It is available on DVD in Regions 2 and 4. It is also available as a DVD-R in Region 1 through the Warner Archive MOD program. 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 the present day, and none of the dialogue from the play is used in the film. 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. The film features two actors who have portrayed Superman - Christopher Reeve, who starred in the four LESS