NETWORK (1976)

When news anchor Howard Beale's (Finch) on-air breakdown causes a surge in the ratings of the hapless UBS network, cutthroat execs Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway waste no time exploiting the spectacle, trashing journalistic standards in the process. Beale's best friend and TV news old-guardsman Max Schumacher (Holden) is also swept up in a satiric storm of escalating absurdities in author Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning opus, which eerily foretold the cultural open sewer television would become. One of the great movies of the 20th century, it gave us the now-iconic phrase "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Peter Finch won a posthumous Best Actor Oscar.

The sparkling cast includes: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight, Wesley Addy, Darryl Hickman, Ken Kercheval, William Prince, and Marlene Warfield.

#66 on the AFI Top 100.  

NETWORK was nominated for the Best Picture award. Peter Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Director Sydney Lumet's "Network" is a wild, visionary comedy about television programming. Lumet received a nomination for best directing.

The Network Review

Promotional Line: "Television will never be the same!"