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Network

  • 1976
  • R
  • 2h 1m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
188K
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Network (1976)
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Dark ComedyPsychological DramaWorkplace DramaDrama

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass 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 mass 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 mass 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
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    188K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,074
    102
    • Director
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writer
      • Paddy Chayefsky
    • Stars
      • Faye Dunaway
      • William Holden
      • Peter Finch
    • 503User reviews
    • 144Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 20 wins & 27 nominations total

    Videos4

    Official Trailer
    Trailer 2:59
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    'Network' | Anniversary Mashup
    Clip 1:09
    'Network' | Anniversary Mashup
    'Network' | Anniversary Mashup
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    'Network' | Anniversary Mashup
    How Gallows Humor Helped Charlize Theron Make 'Bombshell' Feel Real
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    How Gallows Humor Helped Charlize Theron Make 'Bombshell' Feel Real
    Does 'Joker' Exist in a Scorsese-Verse of Films?
    Clip 2:53
    Does 'Joker' Exist in a Scorsese-Verse of Films?

    Photos128

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    Top Cast57

    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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    User reviews503

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    Drama

    Storyline

    Did you know

    • 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 Grand format: Amérique, notre histoire (2006)

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    FAQ3

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    Details

    • Release date
      • November 27, 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Poder que mata
    • Filming locations
      • CTV Toronto Studios - 9 Channel Nine Court, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada(as CFTO-TV Studios, Control room and news studio scenes)
    • Production companies
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
      • United Artists
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    • Budget
      • $3,800,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,689,877
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,707,934
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 2h 1m(121 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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