Network
Movie (1976)
Comedy, Drama
In Collection
#1126
0*
DivX
121 mins
IMDB

Faye Dunaway Diana Christensen
William Holden Max Schumacher
Peter Finch Howard Beale
Robert Duvall Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty Arthur Jensen
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

Director Sidney Lumet
Producer Howard Gottfried
Fred C. Caruso
Writer Paddy Chayefsky

When Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is given two weeks notice for dismissal from being a TV news anchorman because of low ratings. During his last two weeks he begins to lose his mind. His rantings on live television about modern greed and corporate corruption capture the interest of audiences. But he gets his greatest ratings ever when he threatens to commit suicide on air. When TV excecutive Max Schumacher (William Holden) at the parent company Communications Corporation of America (CCA) notices what great ratings Howard's honest talk is getting, he gives Howard his own live show to broadcast the counter-culture ideas pervasive in America. Producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) pushes Howard harder and harder to go more extreme for better ratings. But the hit show they have created begins to turn against its creator when Howard targets CCA is the symbol of everything that is wrong in America.

Edition Details
Country USA
Language English
Region Region 1
No. of Disks/Tapes 1