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Between the Lines

1977Movie1 h 41 minR

ComedyDrama
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.6Rotten Tomatoes94%50%
75
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb6.6Rotten Tomatoes94%50%

Summary

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.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Teens
  • Thought-provoking

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  • Feels like real life.

Not for scares, brutality or laughs.

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Tropes

Tyrant Takes the Helmin 318 titlesDouble Subversion. Everybody worries that Walsh will ruin the paper if he takes over. He finally does, and in his first meeting he’s pleasant and upbeat.Ambiguously Biin 1,097 titlesMax flirts with two young women from Oregon at a party and uses the continuing ed class he teaches as a way to pick up female students.All 9 tropes

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