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The Image | 
| Director: Peter Werner (iii)
Actors: Albert Finney, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker, Swoosie Kurtz, Marsha Mason
Studio: HBO Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.97
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 95809
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D90384D
UPC: 026359038426
EAN: 0026359038426
ASIN: B000M5AJK4
Theatrical Release Date: January 27, 1990
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 04/17/2007 Rating: R
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 Tarnished 'Image' February 27, 2009
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
THE IMAGE is a latter-day take on NETWORK (VHS) (DVD), and like that earlier work this made-for-HBOer has its share of cliched characters. There's the successful and somewhat reckless news magazine anchor (Finney), his friend/segment producer who's grown jaundiced over time (Mahoney), their shrewish taskmaster boss (Kurtz) and even an ambitious young photographer (Pitt).
The main plotline has been described elsewhere on this page: Texas S&L president commits suicide after a damaging expose airs on the weekly newsmagazine hosted by Jason Cromwell. Subsequent exculpatory information is uncovered by Cromwell's producer, Irv Mickelson who pays a high price for his investigation. The professional and personal relationship between workaholic Cromwell and beeraholically eccentric Mickelson (he holds serious conversations with a giant teddy bear!) is the best element of this creaky film.
Brad Pitt as a twangy Texan who specializes in filming cattle and barnyard critters makes for a pleasant departure from a plodding story. A trailer trash skinhead seems haphazardly thrown in as an afterthought-- the kid delivers his three repulsive lines and is gone.
"The Image" is available on DVD.
Also recommended:
BROADCAST NEWS (1984) features a strong ensemble cast portraying D.C. newsroom personnel in a dog-eat-dog business. (VHS) (DVD)
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.
The Image (TV-1990) - Albert Finney/John Mahoney/Swoozie Kurtz/Kathy Baker/Marsha Mason/Spaulding Gray/Brad Pitt
 Great! January 8, 2000
Michael J. Lednicky (West, TX United States)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Really good movie. Turned it on, and could not stop watching it. John Mahoney (Frasier's TV dad) is great in it!
Loved it...Very Powerful! February 3, 1999
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was blown away by this movie, and its really top cast. The script was GREAT and the some of the lines are hoot. Look for a nice little early perfomance by Brad Pitt as the TV Cameraman. Finney is masterful.
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