Christine is a 2016 American independent[3] biographical psychological drama film[4] directed by Antonio Campos and written by Craig Shilowich.

The film stars Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck, a news reporter who was the first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast.

Sarasota, Florida, 1974: Reporter Christine Chubbuck is frequently at odds with her boss, Michael, who wants her to focus less on human-interest pieces and more on crime, which brings in news ratings.

Eager to earn the promotion, Christine buys a police scanner and begins listening to it, hoping to find grittier stories.

When footage of a crime scene jams and she's asked to stall, she shrugs it off, announces that the station will be airing a live suicide attempt, pulls out a revolver, and shoots herself in the head.

Once at home, Jean pulls an ice cream container from the freezer and turns on the television, changing the station from an evening news segment to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Fighting back inevitable tears, Jean begins to sing along to the theme song and eat her ice cream, a tactic she earlier told Christine she uses as a way of coping with sadness.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Rising on the strength of Rebecca Hall's gripping performance, Christine offers an empathetic look at its subject's public career and painful private life.

[20] Guy Lodge of Variety gave the film a positive review, writing: "Far from the austere death march it might threaten to be on paper, this is a thrumming, heartsore, sometimes viciously funny character study, sensitive both to the singularities of Chubbuck’s psychological collapse and the indignities weathered by any woman in a 1970s newsroom.

Invigorated by a top-drawer ensemble, with Rebecca Hall discomfitingly electric in the best role she’s yet been offered, this should easily become Campos’ most widely distributed work to date.

"[21] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review writing: "On the evidence presented here, Chubbuck reads as dour and almost scarily intense on camera, so her professional aptitude is questionable even if her dedication is not.