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Switching Channels (1988) [PG]

Release Date:
March 5, 1988

Original Title:
Switching Channels

Alternate Titles:
Interferencias
Přepnout na život
Switch – Eine Frau räumt auf
The Order – Der letzte Auftrag

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
TriStar Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  DK: 7  US: PG 

Runtime: 105

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A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

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Production

Art Direction:
Charles Dunlop

Assistant Art Director:
Ed Hanna

Assistant Costume Designer:
Gail Filman

Assistant Editor:
Joan E. Chapman
Patricia A. Galvin
Susan Maggi
Peter Ransohoff

Assistant Hairstylist:
Diana Ladyshewsky

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Teresa Robinson

Assistant Set Decoration:
Daniel R. Bradette

Assistant Sound Editor:
John Laning
Donna Powell
Michael Rea

Boom Operator:
Steve Switzer

Camera Operator:
Andy Chmura

Carpenter:
Tony Parkins

Casting:
Lynn Stalmaster

Clapper Loader:
Dave Sheridan

Color Timer:
Larry Engelmann

Continuity:
Susanna David

Costume Design:
Mary E. McLeod

Director:
Ted Kotcheff

Director of Photography:
François Protat

Editor:
Thom Noble

Executive Producer:
Don Carmody

Extras Casting:
Peter Lavender

First Assistant Director:
Jim Kaufman

Focus Puller:
Thom Ryan

Foley Artist:
Peter McBurnie

Gaffer:
Ray Boyle
Steve Danyluk

Hairstylist:
Philip Leto

Key Grip:
Michael Kohne

Key Hair Stylist:
David R. Beecroft

Key Makeup Artist:
Katherine Southern

Original Music Composer:
Michel Legrand

Painter:
Frances Semple

Producer:
Martin Ransohoff

Production Accountant:
Jim Mathews

Production Coordinator:
Deborah Zwicker

Production Design:
Anne Pritchard

Production Manager:
Joyce Kozy King

Production Secretary:
Cindy Burden

Property Buyer:
Gustave Meunier

Property Master:
Don Miloyevich

Scenic Artist:
Reet Puhm
Tristan Tondino

Screenplay:
Jonathan Reynolds

Second Assistant Director:
Blair Roth

Second Second Assistant Director:
Stephen Andrzejewski

Set Decoration:
Mark S. Freeborn
Rose Marie McSherry

Sound Editor:
Richard Cadger
Robin Leigh
Jane Tattersall

Still Photographer:
Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Bruce Macaulay

Stunt Coordinator:
Dwayne McLean

Supervising Sound Editor:
Wayne Griffin

Third Assistant Director:
Janet Spiegel

Utility Stunts:
Shelley Cook

Wardrobe Master:
Kim W. Chow
Stacey Coker

Writer:
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur

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