Between the Lines

Drama | English | 101 minutes

Info

Staff members working at the alternative Boston weekly, The Back Bay Mainline, are young, ambitious, but also smart enough to realize that changes are coming. Their days of dissent and writing muckraking articles are slowly ebbing. The newspaper is about to be purchased by a business tycoon and, for sure, the Mainline will never be the same. But they plow ahead, making the best of the time remaining, and hoping there will be a place for them in the coming decade.

Cast

John Heard (Harry, chief investigative reporter) / Lindsay Crouse (Abbie, newspaper photographer) / Jeff Goldblum (Max, wisecracking critic of rock music) / Jill Eickenberry (Lynn, receptionist and office den mother) / Michael J.Pollard (Hawker, selling the Back Bay Mainline on street corners and to passengers in parked cars) / Bruno Kirby ( David, earnest intern) / Stephen Collins (Michael, struggling to write a book)

Why Stream This Film?

Between the Lines is about a group of young people running an alternative weekly in Boston. Their energies are slowly waning. They’ve come to the realization that the American counterculture of the ’70s, as they know it, has run its course. Next they must face the ’80s, a new decade with challenges that seem formidable.

Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 93%

Accolades

Berlin International Film Festival: Winner, Best Director (Joan Micklin Silver)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Winner, Best Director (Joan Micklin Silver)