The real Christine Chubbuck (played by Rebecca Hall) committed suicide in 1974 during a live morning news show broadcast from a local TV station in Sarasota, Florida. While her struggle with mental depression no doubt triggered this decision, the underlying theme of this movie carries a powerful message about choices facing career women in modern day America. Christine is happiest when she sings along to her car radio, shows off her sly sense of humour as host of the human interest news segments, and puts on puppet shows for children hospitalized with intellectual disabilities. But she is also driven with ambition and fights tooth and nail with the TV station manager (Tracy Letts) who wants to change the news format and refuses to help advance her career. She uses work as an excuse to avoid intimate friendships with the news anchor, George (Michael C. Hall), her young director and admirer, Jean (Maria Dizzia), and her likable co-worker, Steve (Timothy Simons). Her mother, Peg (J. Smith-Cameron) also a working woman who has found comfort in casual sex and marijuana, blames mental depression for robbing her daughter of the physical embraces she desperately needs but Christine is a career women struggling to find her own sexual norms and in the end chooses to kill herself rather than abandon this dream. Ironically, the movie ends with the theme song from the "Mary Tyler Moore" show playing in the background. If you like offbeat characters, you will enjoy the movie "Christine".
