Movies

So you want to be in pictures? Be a journalist! Seems like one of the more popular occupations for characters in movies is reporter. At least once a year, CMA advisers love to toss out their favorite journalism movies or movies featuring a major character employed in the journalism or publishing field. This list, compiled from those discussions, with some recent additions, is not all inclusive, nor does it profess to claim that these are all good movies. It is simply a list. If you know of a movie about journalism or features a major character as a journalist not on the list, post a comment or send us an e-mail and we’ll get it on there.

• 30- (aka Deadline Midnight)
• A Case of Libel
• A Message from Reuters
• Absence of Malice
• Ace in the Hole
• Airplane
• All the President’s Men
• Almost Famous
• Anchorman
• Animal House
• The Big Clock
• Big Trouble
• Blessed Event
• Blood Diamonds
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
• Broadcast News
• Bruce Almighty
• Capote
• Capturing the Friedmans
• The China Syndrome
• Citizen Kane
• Continental Divide
• Deadline USA
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fletch
• Fletch Lives
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Front Page (1931)
• The Front Page (1974)
• Funny Farm
• Gailey, Gailey
• Good Night and Good Luck
• Heartburn
• His Girl Friday
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• The Hunting Party
• I Love Trouble
• Infamous
• Inherit the Wind
• The Insider
• Interview
• It Happened One Night
• It Happens Every Thursday
• Just One of the Guys
• The Killing Fields
• Knocked Up
• L.A. Confidential
• Libeled Lady
• The Life of David Gale
• Live from Baghdad
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Mean Season
• Meet John Doe
• Michael
• The Natural
• Network
• Never Been Kissed
• Newsies
• Northside 777
• Nothing Sacred
• One Fine Day
• The Paper
• The Pelican Brief
• The People Versus Larry Flynt
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Quiet American
• Rear Window
• Reds
• The Ring
• Roman Holiday
• Runaway Bride
• Salvador
• Shattered Glass
• The Shipping News
• Sling Blade
• Simone
• Spiderman
• Spiderman II
• Spiderman III
• Superman The Movie
• Superman II
• Superman III
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• Superman Returns
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Switching Channels
• Teacher’s Pet
• To Die For
• True Crime
• Under Fire
• Up Close and Personal
• Van Wilder
• Winchell
• Woman of the Year
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• Zodiac