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Television will never be the same.
Television will never be the same.
Drama - 1976
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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.
Director:
,
Sidney Lumet
Cast:
,
Conchata Ferrell
,
Robert Duvall
,
Faye Dunaway
,
William Holden
,
Ned Beatty
,
Peter Finch
,
Wesley Addy
,
Arthur Burghardt
,
Jerome Dempsey
,
Bill Burrows

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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
122 min
Release date:
1 Nov 1976
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$3,800,000
Revenue:
$23,689,877
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. 20 wins & 26 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
The plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America -- where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power -- it is just impossible to accept.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
18 Jul 2011
fresh:
The film's never been more timely.
– Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb 2011
rotten:
Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
26 Jun 2007
fresh:
Network can be faulted both for going too far and not far enough, but it's also something that very few commercial films are these days. It's alive.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
This is a bawdy, stops-out, no-holds-barred story of a TV network that will, quite literally, do anything to get an audience.
– A.D. Murphy,
Variety,
13 Feb 2001
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