Academy Award, Emmy and Golden-Globe winner Faye Dunaway ("Chinatown," "Bonnie and Clyde") and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Peter Finch ("Sunday Bloody Sunday," "The Nun's Story") star in this powerful and still-relevant satire of the news industry. When a news anchor has a nervous breakdown on live television, and threatens to kill himself on a following live newscast, the event is manipulated by his driven producer into a ratings smash. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and two for Actor (it won for Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay), and winner of four Golden Globe awards, including Best Director, Actor and Actress. Also starring Academy Award-winner William Holden ("Sunset Boulevard," "The Wild Bunch"), Academy Award-winner Beatrice Straight ("Poltergeist," "The Nun's Story"), Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "The Godfather" 1 and 2).
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
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Great!I believe the term "masterpiece" is a horribly overused honorific when it comes to movie reviews on here and elsewhere. I also believe this is one of the few movies that actually deserves it. Btw, this is in no way a comedy..Score: 5/5
Plane rideLooking for that movie to watch on a long coast to coast flight. This is the one. A classic, relevant to today , a great cast and story line. It's 2 hours long so it will fill a good part of that long trip. Enjoy!.Score: 5/5
R.I.P. Peter FinchHe was as mad as he--, and he couldn't take it anymore!.Score: 5/5
One of the best movies everIt's on sundance now and I just remembered I don't own it! Problem solved!.Score: 5/5
MAD AS HELLSimply one of the greats. Must be watched by everyone..Score: 5/5
Zero starsThis movie is a filthy piece of trash. The morally bankrupt movie has much adultery & use of the Lord's name as curse word. It is a waste of 2 hours of your life, IMHO. We have no clue whatsoever why this piece is excrement is rated so highly. It's an awful movie.Score: 1/5
THE TRUTH SHALL BE KNOWNIf you have ever wondered how tv works. Just any bit of curiousity you have as to why certain things happen. Any questions at all. I can assure you they will be answered just by watching this classic movie..Score: 5/5
Give me Jesus ! :-) I am a Human Being God Be Blessed !The EPIC highlight of this film is the full length "I'm Mad As Hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Clip - such a TIMELESS speech, and you can see just this clip on YouTube. STILL true today... GET MAD, not mad and do bad things - but Mad at Sin ! Mad at all the EVIL in this world, all the crime and killing and nonsence and war and death and bombings and greed and hurting wrongdoing ! First get MAD, and Shout - I AM A HUMAN BEING GOD BLESS IT ! Then love Jesus, and do GOOD helpful things to cure this world of harmful evil things.... :-) God Bless NETWORK!.Score: 5/5
Depravity Knows No BoundsBefore the advent of Reality TV, there was Network. The main review above had it right when it described this film as "still relevant." Shows how out of control the sick insanity of human beings can become when competition is fierce. Depicts how very aware the execs of our "serious" news sources are about being, first and foremost, an entertainment medium. As with any older movie, the acting can seem a little dated, but Dunaway and Duvall really shine, and Holden is solid as always- and these were the non-Oscar winners. Styles and decor made for great reminiscing for those of us who were around in the 70's. A worthwhile two hours..Score: 4/5
Go out and shout"" pretty edgy topic, huge corperations with alot of debt, banking on one individual. In a time of desperation a news anchor becomes livid and expressive. Nice story of love, greed, allegiance, and selfeshness..Score: 5/5
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20 dollars to muchThis is a great movie and I would recommend renting it but to charge 20 dollars to own is insane. Thanks for yet again trying to rip us off..Score: 5/5
An acerbic historical documentationThis movie doesn't come alive until the second half, when Beatrice Straight, rivetingly, shows up to condemn William Holden for his unfaithfulness to her, and then when Ned Beatty delivers a succinct, and definitive, description of the way the corporate world works today, dire and prophetic back in 1976 - otherwise Faye Dunaway overacts outrageously, the others are, at least, effective, the script has its inspiring ups and its risible downs.Score: 4/5
This is surreal.It's an nwo warning 15 years in advance. It's NOT a new idea. But seeing this is a great idea. All the world really is staged..Score: 5/5
A sharp commentary on television apart from an unnecessary adultery plotAs another reviewer has mentioned, this movie is rather surreal and terrifying in its extremely cynical, but accurate depiction of corporate television. Although not a revolutionary film in that it does not offer true alternatives to corporate fascism, it does get the point across that power in the world is not held by nations, but rather by corporations. The biggest flaw however in this film is its totally gratuitous adultery plot with two of the main characters..Score: 4/5
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