Between the Lines (1977) on Netflix
At the Back Bay Mainline, an alternative paper in Boston, money is running out and a corporate buyer is rumored. Harry is its lead reporter; Abbie, a photographer, is his on-and-off partner.
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- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
The Back Bay Mainline is a Boston underground paper that came to prominence in the 1960s, and by the 1970s its staff is struggling to keep it afloat. Harry, the lead reporter, has grown disillusioned with the job, and Abbie, a photographer, is his on-and-off partner. Lynn, the office administrator, keeps the place running, while Max writes about music, Frank edits, and Stanley sells advertising. Michael, a writer, plans to leave for New York on the proceeds of a book, and Laura, a founding reporter, lives with him. David, a cub reporter who bikes to work, wants to prove himself. Word spreads that a communications empire may buy the paper, a prospect the staff dreads.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Between the Lines (1977)
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- Between the Lines marked the screen debuts of John Heard, Joe Morton and Marilu Henner. Robert Costanzo, who briefly appears as a hired goon, was making only his second film appearance.
- Margaret Moser of The Austin Chronicle credited the film with inspiring the founding of that newspaper itself, describing its story of an underground Boston paper facing a corporate buy-out.
- Screenwriter Fred Barron drew on his and Harper Barnes' experience at the alternative papers The Phoenix and The Real Paper, and director Joan Micklin Silver had herself worked for The Village Voice.
