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Switching Channels

There's a lot more going on around here than news, weather, and sports.

1988 · PG · 1h 45m

Directed by Ted Kotcheff

6.0

TMDB audience score
79 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

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Cast

  • Kathleen Turner
    Christy Colleran

  • Burt Reynolds
    John L. Sullivan IV

  • Christopher Reeve
    Blaine Bingham

  • Ned Beatty
    Roy Ridnitz

  • Henry Gibson
    Ike Roscoe

  • George Newbern
    Siegenthaler

  • Al Waxman
    Berger

  • Ken James
    Warden Terwilliger

  • Barry Flatman
    Zaks

  • Ted Simonett
    Tillinger

  • Anthony Sherwood
    Carvalho

  • Joe Silver
    Mordsini

  • Charles Kimbrough
    The Governor

  • Allan Royal
    Obregon

  • Andre Mayers
    Jesse

  • Bill Randolph
    Eric

  • Monica Parker
    Jessica

  • Fiona Reid
    Pamela Farbrother