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Network [Region 2] | ![Network [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CHM64DZ3L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $31.19
Rating:  171 reviews
Format: Pal
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4010232017819
ASIN: B00008VDTO
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
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Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky's and director Sidney Lumet's take on television may seem quaint in the age of "reality TV" and Jerry Springer's talk-show fisticuffs, it's every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the greatest of all dramatists, his Oscar-winning script about the ratings frenzy at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (who each won Oscars), and Oscar nominee William Holden in one of his finest roles. Finch plays a veteran network anchorman who's been fired because of low ratings. His character's response is to announce he'll kill himself on live television two weeks hence. What follows, along with skyrocketing ratings, is the anchorman's descent into insanity, during which he fervently rages against the medium that made him a celebrity. Dunaway plays the frigid, ratings-obsessed producer who pursues success with cold-blooded zeal; Holden is the married executive who tries to thaw her out during his own seething midlife crisis. Through it all, Chayefsky (via Finch) urges the viewer to repeat the now-famous mantra "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" to reclaim our humanity from the medium that threatens to steal it away. --Jeff Shannon
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 Flawless, oh that 70's. July 1, 2009
R. Robinson (N.C. by way of TX)
What an interesting and provocative movie. Reinforcing my belief that best movies probably came out of the 1970's (before my day so there is no nostalgia there). In order not to spoil I will be vague. The last five minutes seems rushed and ill contrived but I suppose if you let yourself go with it, its fine then. The writer could of spent another few more minutes building up to the end scene and involving less people in the cabal to make it more realistic. I can believe that this movie is not adapted from a novel. It has so much depth in both plot and characters that a puny screenplay wouldn't seem to be able to carry all the emotion.
Prophet of the Airwaves May 6, 2009
C. Rocklein
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must see picture that works on every level - it is superbly written, acted and directed. In spite of the industry it condemns, it IS entertaining in a way that occasionally raises the hairs on your neck.
"We're all you know! You're beginning to beleive the illusions we're spinning here.
You're beginning to think the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You DO whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube.. you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs!
In God's name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now! Turn them off!"
But before you do, watch this movie. It can have the effect of confirming what you know about TV already - that it influences everyone deeply and no one seems to notice.
Great flick. Entertaining and enlightening.
impressive and accurate April 6, 2009
J. Green
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
outstanding movie. i'm surprised it took me so long to hear about it, but i'm glad i did. an excellent satire on current events to this day with an impressive and accurate script that reflects exactly what's going on in big capitalist america.
Must see March 26, 2009
D. Kaley (spokane, WA United States)
I have nothing new to add to the great reviews except to those who complain about the audio/visual issues. Those points are valid, but in the case of this movie, I think content trumps asthetics.
One of the best movies EVER made...EVER March 26, 2009
O. Rios (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Network is a classic movie about television and ratings and how the news media stopped producing news and only tv ratings.
Howard Beale is a TV anchor for UBS and has been a staple of the network for years. But when his ratings started dropping, and his wife passing away, Beale becomes more of a distant person.
He's fired for low ratings and his best friend, Max Schumacher notifies him that he has 2 weeks left. They go drinking and at the bar, Howard tells Max that he's going to kill himself on TV...Max responds that if that happened, there would be a 50 share rating.
So the next day, Howard comes out on the air and tells everyone that he will be retiring in 2 weeks because of low ratings and plans on killing himself because he no longer has anything to live for (wife died and no more tv anchor job) and tells the audience to tune in next week.
This causes a complete mess in the executive offices and phone calls start rolling in, ratings immediately jump and the story is covered on the front page of the New York Times. Real news or sensationalism?
Beale becomes a sensation and is even awarded his own primetime show where he rants about being mad, and his catch phrase, "i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore!"
After convincing management that he is crazy, he is allowed to appear on television again, and he starts by apologizing before again, going into a "mad as hell" tirade.
The managers and directors become entrenched with the ratings after at first, being outraged by Beale's foul language sermons, and in particular, Faye Dunaway's character is only interested in ratings, even giving up her personal life to devote to ratings.
In the end, like all things, his show starts to sag and his ratings start to drop, so as usual, the producers and managers have to come up with fresh ideas and they do.
They..........
can't give it away.
check out the movie, great flick.
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