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      Network

      1976, Comedy/Drama, 2h 1m

      75 Reviews 25,000+ Ratings

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      Driven by populist fury and elevated by strong direction, powerful acting, and an intelligent script, Network's searing satire of ratings-driven news remains sadly relevant more than four decades later. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      In this lauded satire, veteran news anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) discovers that he's being put out to pasture, and he's none too happy about it. After threatening to shoot himself on live television, instead he launches into an angry televised rant, which turns out to be a huge ratings boost for the UBS network. This stunt allows ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming, a concept that she takes to unsettling extremes.

      • Rating: R

      • Genre: Comedy, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Sidney Lumet

      • Producer: Howard Gottfried

      • Writer: Paddy Chayefsky

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

      • Production Co: United Artists, Metro Goldwyn Mayer

      Cast & Crew

      Faye Dunaway
      Peter Finch
      William Holden
      Robert Duvall
      Beatrice Straight
      Wesley Addy
      Ned Beatty
      Arthur Burghardt
      Bill Burrows
      John Carpenter
      Jordan Charney
      Elliot Lawrence
      Owen Roizman
      Alan Heim
      Philip Rosenberg
      Edward Stewart
      Theoni V. Aldredge

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      • Mar 30, 2021

        Paddy Chayefsky takes a shot at societal prognostication with this artfully devised entertainment that imagines the fall and rise of a network anchorman who is cracking under the strain of remaining relevant near the end of his career. While the performances are first rate, award-worthy, its the point of the thing that carries the day here and, it's indeed a resonant work, if perhaps unheeded due entirely to it's very relevance.

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      • Jun 26, 2016

        it must've got low ratings. we should liberate the unthinking audience by assassinating the production team behind it! tell me how to eat my hot dog! god is now the internet. this is out of date!

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      • Jan 21, 2014

        Peter Finch's ravings represent what a lot of people feel about being placed in a box by an employer unable to express frustrations in a productive way. Unfortunately Finch died before being rewarded with an Oscar. The performance speaks to many of us.

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      • Sep 19, 2013

        An intelligent and hilarious satire whose main strength lies especially in a superb ensemble cast and a fantastic script that delights us with many priceless exchanges of dialogue as it offers us a relevant, thought-provoking social commentary on the television industry.

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