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Television will never be the same
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Faye Dunaway, William Holden & Peter Finch | |
Performer: | Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Arthur Burghardt, Jordan Charney, Ed Crowley, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Michael Lombard, Russ Petranto, Roy Poole, William Prince, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilson, Lee Richardson, Michael Lipton, Paul Jenkins & Jerome Dempsey | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Alan Heim | |
Screenwriting by | Paddy Chayefsky | |
Composition by | Elliot Lawrence | |
Produced by | Howard Gottfried | |
Director of Photography: | Owen Roizman |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Actor: Peter Finch
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Original Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Academy Awards 1976 -
Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight
Entertainment Reviews:
No performance is less than brilliant, with Dunaway particularly effective in the film's showiest role. Holden, Finch and Duvall, as always, contribute bed-rock-solid performances.
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Hollywood Reporter
With a powerful performance from Peter Finch, the satirical Network is relevant more so today than upon the theatrical release back in 1976.
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Solzy at the Movies
Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time.
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Chicago Reader
4 stars out of 4 -- If movies can tell the future, then this 1976 harbinger about a major network's calculated and deranged ratings grab is right on time.
Rolling Stone
...A vicious, exaggerated satire which aims for barbed black humour over belly laughs....[With a] sharp screenplay...
Total Film
Rating: A --
The film's never been more timely.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
This tale of a failing network that feeds on the mental breakdown of one of its anchors, cannibalising itself for ratings, feels as savagely relevant now as it did when it was released nearly 40 years ago.
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Times (UK)
Product Description:
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 film might someday influence an even more contagious trend in television broadcasting: the reality show'
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- Sales Rank: 4,410
- UPC: 883929157921
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