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• Network is a dramatic film that explores the struggles of a TV network in the competitive world of television news.

• Fast Facts

  1. Release date: November 27, 1976
  2. Director: Sidney Lumet
  3. Screenwriter: Paddy Chayefsky
  4. Producers: Howard Gottfried, Paddy Chayefsky
  5. Distributor: United Artists Films
  6. MPAA rating: R
  7. Run time: 121 minutes
  8. Awards: 4 Oscars (Best Actor in a Leading Role, 2 Best Actress Awards, and Best Writing)
  9. Only one of two movies that won three Oscars for acting Filmsite.org: A Street Car Named Desire (1951)
  10. Oscar for Best Actor awarded posthumously to Peter Finch Digital Spy: Ledger tipped for posthumous Oscar (July 13 2008)

• Plot Summary

  News anchor Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch, announces on live television that he's planning on committing suicide, after being told that he's being fired due to low ratings. The ratings spike his declaration produces convince management to keep him on the air.

• Quotes

  "All I know is first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a human being. God Dammit, my life has value." 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 as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"—Howard Beale, NetworkEamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Things Have Got to Change My Friends (October 2006)

  “This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.”—Narrator, NetworkAmerican Society of Cinematographers: Network (1976) (June 2006)

• Cast

  • Faye Dunaway: Diana Christensen
  • William Holden: Max Schumacher
  • Peter Finch: Howard Beale
  • Robert Duvall: Frank Hackett

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  Faye Dunaway | William Holden | Robert Duvall | Sidney Lumet | Academy Awards | Television | William Holden | News

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