Fast-talking ensemble piece set over twenty-four hours at the offices of a New York tabloid. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) is the metro editor of the ailing ' New York Sun', trying to hold his life together as chaos reigns in the newsroom. His pregnant wife, Martha (Marisa Tomei), is pushing him to accept a managerial job at the upmarket ' Sentinel' magazine, but meanwhile Henry is clashing with his boss, Alicia Clark (Glenn Close), over how to report the racially-motivated murder of two white businessmen in Brooklyn.