Morning Glory (2010)
Bekkah:
Like definitely Not Enough Jeff, but he was honestly so dreamy in this despite being an a-hole without a leather jacket. Good glasses, tousled hair, I’m into it. This movie was so-so? I just can’t buy Rachel McAdams as like a messy-doesn’t-have-her-shit-together-sorta-manic-pixie-dreamgirl? Like just because her bangs were kinda out of control at the beginning does not a mess make. She’s just America’s Sweetheart (at least in 2010) and so I just couldn’t buy her schtick where she thought she was not good enough for that one actor who I think is also pretty dreamy (not Jeff) but I never learn his name. You two were a good match! Just accept it. I’m not surprised I’d never heard of this movie before because it is almost totally forgettable. Harrison Ford’s gruff attitude was a win, but the moral of the story was your job is your family and that is some toxic capitalistic bullshit and I am not here for it!
Danya:
Cheeky and messily-banged upstart young producer takes over a failing morning show, then through a series of montages her bangs get smooth and the show gets good. In between, there’s a lot of casual misogyny and the kind of toxic masculinity and entitlement that isn’t cute, even after Harrison Ford at his gruffest, makes an apology frittata. She gives up her dream job to keep working with her “show family.” Who wins? Capitalism and also us, because Jeff is also gruff with tousled hair and rocks his glasses. Plus one for trying to be feminist, minus three for trying to make patriarchy adorable.
6/10 Gloryblums
An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.