Albert Brooks' fate in his film career has been a bit like that of the character he played in Broadcast News: talented but never quite making it on the big occasion. His first films, Real Life and Lost in America, were critical but not popular successes, and Modern Romance, too, built up a cult following but not a pile of box-office takings. Alternately uncomfortable and very funny, this is a typically Brooksian view of an on-off romance, benefitting from the comedian's wry eye for the follies of modern life.
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