Have you ever wondered how a life of a morning show news reporter would be? This film shows exactly that. Morning Glory is satirical comedy film that revolves around the lives of these reporters. The film revolves around the young Becky Fuller, played by Rachel McAdams, who dreams to work in Today show which is the best morning television in the country. Her dreams are almost shattered when she gets fired from her current job. Deciding the best way is to move on, she gets a new job in a rather messed up company and having a great responsibility to bring matters back on the right track. Then comes in the ever irritating, old and straight Mike Pomeroy, played by the great Harrison Ford who is a popular and great achieving news reporter facing the same fate as Becky after his time being expired. Becky, who is a big fan of Pomeroy somehow tries to convince him on anchoring her show upon less interest from him. A successful pledge forms the rest of the story.The story looks simple and stays simple throughout, but the heavyhearted concept and the deep messages in the film makes this a fun journey overall. Firstly, I have to thank director Roger Michell for making this film. This film shows all aspects of a news reporter's life in limelight. My respect towards news reporters immensely increased after watching this knowledgeable film. Writer Aline Brosh McKenna also deserves all salutes for writing this story. The story moves in a slow pace and picks up gradually. The introduction of every character was very interesting and the development towards a certain scene builds tension slowly. The comedy element in the film worked at its best at high points due to the involvement of every character in the film. The next plus in film is the heartwarming dialogues. The dialogue exchange between Rachel and Harrison Ford were interesting and heart touching at the same time. Hats off to the dialogue writers.The chemistry between Rachel and Harrison were awesome throughout the film. These two characters really stood out and director Roger Michell showed many hidden messages through them. The performance of Rachel was simply fantastic. Despite seeing a sense of overacting in some scenes in the beginning, I understood that those nuances were absolutely needed for the character of Becky. Her clumsy and over expressive character was annoying at times but fun overall. Coming to Harrison Ford, he was amazing. His character irritated, annoyed and frustrated everyone watching and he pulled it off with great fashion. The transformation of his character was the major plus point in this film. The other actors in the film had important roles which were mostly done well. Music in Hollywood films usually do not add a stand out value in their filmmaking, in this, David Arnold's music was absolutely a bliss to hear and small song numbers added sentimental values towards the film.Overall, Morning Glory is feel good film that involves multi-layered messages about life, love, friendship and nature. The small touches like phone calls in unwanted situations show the level of importance of multimedia in modern life. The deft touches made by director Roger Michell was simply amazing. Every character in this film was highly related to life and the transformation of every character was very spirit lifting. This film made me laugh and cry, but more importantly taught me how to respect people in their own perspective. A fulfilling experience made from the heart.

If you want to watch a feel-good film, this is it. I think people who have been underestimated in any part of their lives will be able to relate to the main character and would feel inspired by this film. It is funny, and the acting is great. Rachel McAdams was the perfect person for her role. Harrison Ford did such a great job. I've never seen him play a role like this, so it showed me that he really is a very good actor. Patrick Wilson is just eye-candy. The only problem I had was with Diane Keaton. I love her, but I did not think this was the right role for her. I can see that her character was supposed to be a mean person, but Diane wasn't really doing a good job in it. She ended up looking a little goofy. Nevertheless, there were a couple of scenes with her that were hilarious.

Well, this movie was such awful that before writing this review, I checked between for the age gap between Harrison and Al Pacino (the older for 2 years). I did that because it's striking how their evolution are totally opposite. Decades ago, it was rather Harrison who was cool, compassionate while Al was cold, heartless. Today, far later in their career, Al keeps getting sweet and warmly whereas Harrison becomes totally grumpy! Here, the hero of my childhood is just despicable from start to finish and to make things worse, the story is totally a failure. We have to wait one hour to see actually Harrisson doing his first morning show which is however the main subject here and also that's left only 40 minutes to tell something! But Harrison isn't the only culprit here! If you take the sexy and energetic MacAdams, here she just can't give something emotional. So, it's long, it's dull, it's not funny and the prestigious cast can't save anything! If it's not the definition of a stinker, I don't know how to tell it other way!

Take a young, attractive, highly motivated would be television executive lacking any experience, add a fledging, soon to be cancelled television morning show and the following off-the-shelf characters: (1) an aging, grumpy investigative reporter past his prime, (2) a grumpy, aging talk show host equally past her prime and (3) a grumpy if not aging managing executive who, for unexplained reasons, hires our young, attractive, highly motivated but inexperienced lead as executive producer. Further add a few odd-ball straight-men for comic relief and a couple of reasonably good lines, "a couple" meaning "two", and presto: a further petri dish film is born.Given an eminently foreseeable story-line and one-dimensional characters, Ms McAdams, Mr Ford and Ms Keaton do a reasonable job attempting to breath some life into this film … but even defibrillators have a maximum setting … and for good reason; there is a point where honest attempts at resuscitation turn into superfluous and cruel mutilations of a corpse.