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Key Information
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Peter Finch
Actors: Carolyn Krigbaum
Genre: Dramas · Television
Subgenre: Recommended · Infidelity · Satire · Social Issues · Big Business · Black Comedy · Psychos · Essential Cinema · Classic
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: VHS
UPC: 012569509139
Release Date: 1976
Running Time: 2hr 2min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD, 2hr 1min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (May 16, 2000)
UPC: 012569509122
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 2hr 1min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (March 13, 2001)
UPC: 012569509139
Credits
Screenwriter: Paddy Chayefsky
Professional Reviews
: (10/01/2008, p.177, Adam Smith): "NETWORK is the perfect meeting of director and screenplay....Lumet and Chayefsky's real achievement is the subtle escalation of the drama..."
Quotes from the Movie
: "So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"--Howard Beale (Peter Finch)

"You're messing with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale!"--Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) to Howard Beale
More Information
Details: With stunning prescience, Sidney Lumet's searing satire of television and the contemporary moment chronicles media corruption and the way that the public buys into the myths the media creates. The moral and spiritual turpitude delivered by the debilitating forces of television are rendered in sharp relief against a backdrop of crumbling humanity in what is regarded as one of the great satires in Hollywood history. With a visceral script from Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK follows the doomed path of aging newsman Howard Beale (Peter Finch), who, upon learning that he is to be fired after decades as a news anchor, announces to millions of viewers that he will publicly commit suicide during his last broadcast. When the ratings consequently shoot up, hungry executive-in-training Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) seizes the moment to exploit Beale's Messianic nervous breakdown, turning his rage into the vehicle for the network's first Number One show and a nationwide craze. Who could have predicted that this 1976 fi...
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