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Network (1976) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 24, 1998
Budget $3,800,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 0 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM, United Artists
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Black Comedy, Satire, Infidelity, Psychos, Exploitation, Society, Murder, Terrorism, Marriage, Epic
Tagline: Television will never be the same!
Plot: 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.
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Faye Dunaway
Chinatown, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc |
 | William Holden
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sunset Blvd., The Wild Bunch |
 | Robert Duvall
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse Now |
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 | Peter Finch
The Flight of the Phoenix, The Nun's Story, Far from the Madding Crowd | Wesley Addy
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Verdict, Tora! Tora! Tora! | Ned Beatty
Superman, Deliverance, All the President's Men | |
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