Morning glory - 2010

I just watched it for the first time, and I liked it a lot, I was sorry when it ended! Oh I'm glad they're still doing nice comedies :-) Well, actually they made it five years ago, it's true, but still... it seemed to  me like these last few years there were no more nice comedies around. Maybe there are a lot that I haven't seen, yet, that's true, I can but hope :-) but this was a real, nice comedy like they used to do them :-) It stars Becky/Rachel McAdams who accepts a job as executive producers to work at the morning show Daybreak, a show that has been running for many years now but that lately has seen its rating going miserably down. She accepts the challenge, determined to bring it to new glory, but it's not as easy at it might seem. She has to fire the co-host, she really had to, so now she must find a new one, and she chooses old, serious journalist Mike Pomeray/Harrison Ford. He didn't want to do it because he thought a simple morning show was not worth him. Still, he has to because she took his contract and cleared to him that if he refuses the job he might get fired and he would have to give up two years worth of money from the channel.
This is just the start of her troubles, because although he accepted, he has no intention of doing light news suitable for a morning show. He constantly fights with co-host Colleen/Diane Keaton. This is her show, and she loves it, and she's very happy to finally have a producer who takes it seriously and really wants to do something with it. Becky is doing all she can to avoid the show being cancelled. Her boss Jerry/Jeff Goldblum makes it clear that the ratings are too low and it's being decided to cancel it in six weeks. Becky won't give up, and tries everything to improve the ratings enough to make the show go on. Colleen is totally up for it, and accepts any new role with enthusiasm, but Mike is more difficult. After a sensational serious news service he did, Becky thinks something might be changing, she thinks they might have established a new relationship.
Her love-interest Adam/Patrick Wilson, who has worked with Mike in the past, has many doubts about this, and thinks she should accepts the new, big offer that's been offered to her, but now Becky sees her morning show like a family and wants to stay there, sure that she'll have a new, fantastic working relationship with Mike, a man she had always admired since she used to watch him on tv with her father. Unfortunately Adam was right in having doubts, because Mike doesn't seem to have changed at all. She yells to him that she had really been thinking of refusing the best offer that had ever come to her to stay at Daybreak, crying, then accepts the interview with the people of Todaynews (or at least I think this was the name of the show that was offered to her). Colleen is deeply angry at Mike for ruining it all for everybody there, who had finally found a producer who cared, who was good at it, and who had changed the show for the better, like she always dreamt of, and now could go away because of him! So of course Mike wants to stop her: what can he do since he's live on air and she's sitting with her new potential employers? He runs to find eggs and stuff to make an omelette right there, on air, just the kind of thing that a morning show does and that he always refused to do. Becky sees it on tv and she's shocked, and quite touched too, and when Adam calls her telling her that he (Mike) won't ask her again, she understands this is his way of asking her to stay and she runs out, and keeps running on her pink heels until she reaches the show and watches him tasting his famous omelette :-)
This is the start of a new, surprising friendship :-)
The show ends with Becky happy with Adam, going on with "her" show. It's also shown Mike entering his dressing room with a blonde lady, but it's not shown who she is, so I assume it's not someone known to us, and certainly not Colleen, and that the scene is there only to show that Mike is , let me say, back to active life and enjoying it, instead of his old lonely self.
I'm saying this because one of the nice things about this film is that although there is a love story in it, it's not the main story, and really is useful only to show what kind of person Becky is.  Usually this kind of films would bring up a relationship between the two co-hosts or even better between the two people fighting the most, but I'm glad to say that this doesn't happen here, and that the main relationship is between Mike and Becky, yes, but it goes from a merely business one to a surprising friendship, that surprises and enriches both of them :-)
I really liked it, I think the length of this proves it :-) Becky is a nice character, full of optimism and passion for her work; Colleen is a lovely character enthusiast of the new show they're making, and Mike, well, Mike is a most unpleasant, grumpy man with a I'm-better-than-all-of-you attitude, who slowly is won over by Becky's passion, seeing himself in her, and regretting his present loneliness at the end he doesn't want to lose her. :-) I love their relationship, because for once the most important one is their friendship, not her love story. Sometimes movies' love-stories can be so boring and predictable, and friendship is usually so underrated, while in real life true friendship or good working relationships are the really hard ones to find, much more difficult than find love. Oh everybody says they have friends, but so often they simply talk of people you go out with, to have a beer and chat, but they're not always real friendships, real relationships. They're just acquaintances. Not always of course, sometimes you're lucky and you do have real friends, but I still believe that true friendship is not so common,  and nice good working relationships are even more rare and difficult.
It's a combination of all these things that made me like this film so much, I guess. The fact that I find Diane Keaton so charming and pleasant, that Becky was so optimist and passionate, that Harrison Ford reminded me a bit of when he did Working Girl :-)  The fact that it also had Jeff Goldblum in it was a really appreciated plus :-)

In Italy: Il buongiorno del mattino

Edit (25 February 2016)
I just rewatched it on tv, and I loved it as I did first time. I really love it. I love Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams was a perfect choice, and the main relationship of the movie, the one between Becky and Mike is adorable. I'm still so happy and amazed that they kept that relationship as the main one of the show, thank you, it makes everything more precious. So nice, I even loved the scene with her running back to the show, usually I don't like that kind of things, so unreal and boring but not here, in this movie to see her running on her high-heels pink shoes was funny and sweet, because she ran back to a job she loves, to a co-worker she wants to keep working with, to a life she loves instead of going for the ambition-choice. I will never get tired of this movie.