Between the Lines is a 1977 American ensemble romantic comedy-drama film[1] from Midwest Films. It was directed by Joan Micklin Silver[2] and produced by her husband Raphael D. Silver.[1]

The film revolves around a team employed at The Back Bay Mainline, an alternative newspaper in Boston,[6] as they face the threat of a takeover by a major corporation. The key figures in this story include Harry Lucas, a disenchanted lead reporter with an on-and-off again girlfriend Abbie, Max, a flaky music critic, Michael, a writer/author intending to relocate to New York, David, an eager cub reporter, and Frank, a beleaguered editor-in-chief.[7]

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