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Network

Movie
1976
2h 2m
R
English
Drama
User Score: 
8.2
Critic Score: 
87
Network' Poster
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Network Poster

Network

R
Movie
1976
2h 2m
English
Drama
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
Rating
WATCHMODE
8.2
IMDB
Network (1976) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
87

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Faye Dunaway
Diana Christensen
William Holden
Max Schumacher
Peter Finch
Howard Beale
Robert Duvall
Frank Hackett
Ned Beatty
Arthur Jensen
Beatrice Straight
Louise Schumacher
Wesley Addy
Nelson Chaney
Arthur Burghardt
Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows
TV Director
John Carpenter
George Bosch
Jordan Charney
Harry Hunter
Kathy Cronkite
Mary Ann Gifford
Ed Crowley
Joe Donnelly
Jerome Dempsey
Walter C. Amundsen
Conchata Ferrell
Barbara Schlesinger
Gene Gross
Milton K. Steinman
Stanley Grover
Jack Snowden
Cindy Grover
Caroline Schumacher
Darryl Hickman
Bill Herron
Mitchell Jason
Arthur Zangwill
Paul Jenkins
TV Stage Manager
Ken Kercheval
Merrill Grant
Kenneth Kimmins
Associate Producer
Lynn Klugman
TV Production Assistant
Carolyn Krigbaum
Max's Secretary
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Written By: Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay)

Featured Comments/Tips

jekyl6669 says...
7 years ago
Brilliant satire. It skewers media and the heights it goes to for ratings. It's both sad and scary how timely the movie still is. It just goes to show that we really haven't changed that much...
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xtrmsnpr says...
7 years ago
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!
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PorterUk says...
5 years ago
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A dengorously prescient film from 40+ years ago that saw how television and the Western world would go. A tour de force of actors going off a script written for the intellectual. It's not the most human dialogue but it is brilliant. Without wanting to give spoilers, I will however comment on the legacy of this film. The one director working today who has adopted this style and ratcheted it up to 11 to my mind is Wes Anderson. The narrator, the craziness passed off with an earnestness reminds me much of his movies. There is an earnest progression to destruction in this film that is brilliantly portrayed and strikes fear into your heart as you realise we have become exactly what was prophesied. What a film this must have been in 1976. 40-odd years on I rate it an 8/10.
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moonkodi says...
8 years ago
It's OK. The message got a bit cheesy with the chanting. The movie seems more of an adolescent temper tantrum that relates to when we reach the age of realising life can be shit more than the big social commentary expected. There are some good points but it's mostly obvious or tries to be elitist. The story is also a little slow. It's liked more now due to its association with conspiracy, and I don't mind that, but the messages in this movie and the protesting feeling it attempts to provoke are not as deep as many think.
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Featured User Reviews

Jordyep
6/10  12 months ago
Nowadays we'd call this out as Oscar bait. Just a very safe office comedy/drama that makes some incredibly obvious observations about the world of television. It's decently funny, but I never felt challenged or emotionally stimulated. It continuously keeps circling back to this theme of '(dumb) ange More
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Vincent
6 years ago
**The Primal Forces of Network**

According to the Writers Guild of America the greatest screenplay of all time belongs to _Casablanca_. A sentimental favourite, no doubt, worthy for a handful of catchy one-liners capped off with a convincing dump-the-dame speech. While Bogie plays himself, Bergma More
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The Movie Diorama
5 years ago
Network broadcasts its televisional corruption through satirical poetry that beckons democratic madness. “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore”, screams Howard Beale from the confinement of his studio desk. Exerting his ornate insanity upon the entranced viewers who innoc More
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CinemaSerf
9 months ago
Peter Finch is superb here as the increasingly puritanical television news anchor ("Beale") who, having been told he was about to be fired decided on air to tell the audience he was going to shoot himself on live telly. Next night - yep, he was allowed back - he declared that it was time the viewing More
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