--- title: 'Switching Channels (1987)' type: 'film' director: 'Ted Kotcheff' released: '1987-01-01' runtime_minutes: 104 genres: - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/switching-channels-1987' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096203/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Switching Channels (1987) 1987 · 104 min · Romance · United States ## Synopsis Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film that is a cable television newsroom-based retelling of newspaper-based 1928 play The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name and the 1940 film His Girl Friday. 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. The film was a box office failure and received mixed reviews from critics. ## Credits - **Director:** [Ted Kotcheff](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-kotcheff) - **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht) - **Original Music Composer:** [Michel Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-legrand) - **Producer:** [Martin Ransohoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-ransohoff) - **Director of Photography:** [François Protat](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-protat) - **Editor:** [Thom Noble](https://cinepixo.com/people/thom-noble) ## Cast - [Al Waxman](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-waxman) - [Henry Gibson](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-gibson) - [Burt Reynolds](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-reynolds) - [Christopher Reeve](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-reeve) - [George Newbern](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-newbern) - [Ned Beatty](https://cinepixo.com/people/ned-beatty) - [Kathleen Turner](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-turner) - [Charles Kimbrough](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-kimbrough) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/switching-channels-1987 Film facts: Wikidata (Q788256); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.