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Network

  • 1976
  • R
  • 2h 1m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
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Network (1976)
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Drama

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

  • Director
    • Sidney Lumet
  • Writer
    • Paddy Chayefsky
  • Stars
    • Faye Dunaway
    • William Holden
    • Peter Finch
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    164K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,531
    203
    • Director
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writer
      • Paddy Chayefsky
    • Stars
      • Faye Dunaway
      • William Holden
      • Peter Finch
    • 440User reviews
    • 187Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #222
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 20 wins & 27 nominations total

    Videos4

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 2:59
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    'Network' | Anniversary Mashup
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    How Gallows Humor Helped Charlize Theron Make 'Bombshell' Feel Real
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    Watch How Gallows Humor Helped Charlize Theron Make 'Bombshell' Feel Real
    Does 'Joker' Exist in a Scorsese-Verse of Films?
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    Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, and Peter Finch in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway in Network (1976)
    Peter Finch in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway in Network (1976)
    Peter Finch in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway in Network (1976)
    William Holden in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway, Bill Burrows, and Jordan Charney in Network (1976)
    Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch in Network (1976)
    Peter Finch in Network (1976)

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    Faye Dunaway
    Faye Dunaway
    • Diana Christensen
    William Holden
    William Holden
    • Max Schumacher
    Peter Finch
    Peter Finch
    • Howard Beale
    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Frank Hackett
    Wesley Addy
    Wesley Addy
    • Nelson Chaney
    Ned Beatty
    Ned Beatty
    • Arthur Jensen
    Arthur Burghardt
    Arthur Burghardt
    • Great Ahmed Kahn
    Bill Burrows
    Bill Burrows
    • TV Director
    John Carpenter
    John Carpenter
    • George Bosch
    Jordan Charney
    Jordan Charney
    • Harry Hunter
    Kathy Cronkite
    Kathy Cronkite
    • Mary Ann Gifford
    Ed Crowley
    Ed Crowley
    • Joe Donnelly
    Jerome Dempsey
    Jerome Dempsey
    • Walter C. Amundsen
    Conchata Ferrell
    Conchata Ferrell
    • Barbara Schlesinger
    Gene Gross
    • Milton K. Steinman
    Stanley Grover
    • Jack Snowden
    Cindy Grover
    Cindy Grover
    • Caroline Schumacher
    Darryl Hickman
    Darryl Hickman
    • Bill Herron
    • Director
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writer
      • Paddy Chayefsky
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Peter Finch was desperate to win the role of Howard Beale once he had read the script. He even offered to pay his own airfare to New York City for the screentest. But Sidney Lumet was concerned about Finch's Australian accent. Finch won the part after sending Lumet a recording of himself reading the New York Times with a perfect American accent.
    • Goofs
      Every one of Howard Beale's shows has the same studio audience (note the man in the black vest, with long hair and a beard).
    • Quotes

      Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! 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!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

    • Crazy credits
      Paddy Chayefsky's credit in the opening credits says "by Paddy Chayefsky" (rather than "written by Paddy Chayefsky" or a variant thereof).
    • Connections
      Edited into Amérique, notre histoire (2006)

    User reviews440

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    Featured review
    9/10
    A Cynic's Dream
    This is one of those wonderful films where everything comes together. The acting and the writing is by far the most impressive elements of this film. William Holden and Peter Finch should have both received Oscars for their performances, instead of just Peter Finch. Faye Dunaway pulls of the most dynamic and emotional characters she has ever played.

    The true brilliance of this film is that all elements of it fade appropriately behind the actors and their messages. The film is completely a work of storytelling and, at least for the writer, stunning clarity of message and purpose. Political films come and go but few remain in the annals of film because of their effectiveness at their own message.

    The cinematography, editing, sound, costume design, art direction and production design are all quite simplistic. In some scenes the film can be accused of being almost ugly. However this all lends to the back-washing of the film so as to allow the message to ring loudest. In my opinion, Sidney Lumet took this just a little too far and thus I give it a 9 instead of a 10.

    This is certainly a film for the history books. Every connoisseur of film should be exposed to this movie at some point in their life. If you happen to be cynical, then you will love every minute of this movie as its stark view of life in the 1970's (and onward) touches the hard of even the hardest of cynics. For those educators out there, GREAT film for classes on Media and Politics.
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    • Jan 3, 2005

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 27, 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Televizijska mreža
    • Filming locations
      • CFTO-TV Studios, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada(Control room and news studio scenes)
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $3,800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,689,877
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,690,757
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 1 minute
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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