ComedyDrama

Between the Lines

- Fun, Adventure, Romance on $75 a Week

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.

Release Date : 1977-04-27

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Midwest Films

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Harry

Original Name : John Heard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Abbie

Original Name : Lindsay Crouse

Gender : Female

Character Name : Max

Original Name : Jeff Goldblum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lynn

Original Name : Jill Eikenberry

Gender : Female

Character Name : David

Original Name : Bruno Kirby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laura

Original Name : Gwen Welles

Gender : Female

Character Name : Michael

Original Name : Stephen Collins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stanley

Original Name : Lewis J. Stadlen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frank

Original Name : Jon Korkes

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Hawker

Original Name : Michael J. Pollard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Roy Walsh

Original Name : Lane Smith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ahmed

Original Name : Joe Morton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wheeler

Original Name : Richard Cox

Gender : Male

Character Name : Danielle

Original Name : Marilu Henner

Gender : Female

Character Name : Herbert Fisk

Original Name : Raymond J. Barry

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jason

Original Name : Gary Springer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sarah

Original Name : Susan Haskins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Charles Levin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Austin

Original Name : Guy Boyd

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cora

Original Name : Martha Deignan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Annie One

Original Name : Deborah Weems

Gender : Male

Character Name : Annie Two

Original Name : Ginny Scales-Medeiros

Gender : Male

Character Name : Susan

Original Name : Deborah Margolis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Austin's Man

Original Name : Robert Costanzo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Austin's Man

Original Name : John H. Gartner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Car Owner

Original Name : Leo Grillo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Car Owner

Original Name : Frank Licato

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dancer

Original Name : Allison Argo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Student

Original Name : Scott Evans

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cheapo's Mgr.

Original Name : Allen Day

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doug Henkel

Original Name : Douglas Kenney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Southside Johnny

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Lady (uncredited)

Original Name : Adrienne King

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-04-20

The twenty-something staff of the erstwhile quite radical newspaper "Mainline" are struggling to keep their work relevant as the 1970s give way to the 1980s. I don't know if anyone remembers a television drama called the "Paper Chase" (1973) but a lot of the style and characterisations of that film are reminiscent here. Young people trying to make their own way, defiantly trying to hold on to values and commitments that may be largely on the wain. The thing with this, for me anyway, was I found them all rather shallow and selfish. The combination of their working and social lives are presented in a fashion that is very, very, verbose. Why use one word when you can use eight? As the story drifts along, I felt less and less interested in the characters and their semi-comic antics and started to notice silly continuity errors - that wouldn't ordinarily matter - and to focus more on the tangential aspects of the film - the big collars, bell-bottom jeans - all the things I used to remember from "Starsky and Hutch". Maybe the fact that I'm not an American means that this Bostonian story of intellectual maturity and liberating camaraderie doesn't resonate in the same way - because I found this all rather dull. Will their newspaper be subsumed into a bigger, commercial, enterprise? Well at the start I hoped not, but by the middle I was indifferent.