...No, I'm not talking about me.
The grateful grad I speak of is Becky Fuller (played by Rachel McAdams) in the latest comedy-gone-drama, Morning Glory.
Glory starts off with the librarian status ponytail sporting Fuller getting laid off from semi-decent job at a New Jersey news station during a meeting she assumes was called to offer her a promotion.
Oops.
A few weeks and 300 resumes later, Fuller is interviewed by a large and successful station for a position at a failing morning show.
She practically has to beg the producers to give her a chance, and when he tells her the pay is practically nothing, her desperation gets the best of her as she agrees to take the job despite its downfalls.
She practically has to beg the producers to give her a chance, and when he tells her the pay is practically nothing, her desperation gets the best of her as she agrees to take the job despite its downfalls.
First day jitters don't get Becky down as she meets her nutty and demanding anchor, Colleen Peck (played by the wonderful Diane Keaton), and is shrilly screamed at from a basement dressing room for attempting to get the show's ratings out of the toilet.
Fuller's perky determination gets the best of her when she, in order to save the show, contacts an old has-been reporter, Mike Pomeroy (played by Harrison Ford, swoon), and demands he help a girl out, as he is still on contract with the station, and will terminate his employment if the station offers him a job and he turns it down.
Reluctantly, Mike joins the less-than-hard-news morning show, Daybreak, and spends weeks and weeks barely participating, fighting on-air with Colleen, and generally making Becky's life more of a living hell than it already is.
A highlight of the otherwise painful-most-of-the-time film is the love story between Becky and a darling blonde journalist-reporter type who works on the millionth floor, Adam Bennett (played by Patrick Wilson).
As their relationship deepens, so does Becky's devotion to the station, and they spend many a night over chinese take-out while she checks her buzzing blackberry and watches the news out of the corner of her eye.
Early one morning, Mike lures Becky up into the catskills for a "breaking" story. Though reluctant, Becky agrees to dish the dirt, whatever it is. They arrive at the governor's mansion in upstate New York, only to out him for some kind of financial scandal, to which Pomeroy has already alerted local media...needless to say, the scoop saves the show.
Pomeroy and Fuller have a quasi heart-to-heart after the governor's bust, and he warns her against the dangers of working too hard and devoting too much to the station, because in the end, it won't love her back like Adam does.
