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Writer:
Paddy Chayefsky (written by)
Release Date:
29 January 1977 (Japan)
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Tagline:
Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale! more
Plot:
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 14 wins
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19 nominations
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Faye Dunaway | ... | Diana Christensen |
 | William Holden | ... | Max Schumacher |
 | Peter Finch | ... | Howard Beale |
 | Robert Duvall | ... | Frank Hackett |
 | Wesley Addy | ... | Nelson Chaney |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Arthur Jensen |
| Arthur Burghardt | ... | Great Ahmed Kahn |
| Bill Burrows | ... | TV Director |
| John Carpenter | ... | George Bosch |
| Jordan Charney | ... | Harry Hunter |
| Kathy Cronkite | ... | Mary Ann Gifford |
| Ed Crowley | ... | Joe Donnelly |
| Jerome Dempsey | ... | Walter C. Amundsen |
| Conchata Ferrell | ... | Barbara Schlesinger |
| Gene Gross | ... | Milton K. Steinman |
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Runtime:
121 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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Trivia:
The movie's line "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" was voted as the #19 movie quote by the American Film Institute
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Max Schumacher is telling Howard Beale a story on the sidewalk in front of their building, he backs up into the street a few times as cars pass by. At the very end of the story, as he hugs Beale, an empty cab is parked on the sidewalk, right behind where he was standing in the street.
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Narrator: This story is about Howard Beale, the acclaimed news anchorman on UBS T.V. In this time, however, he was a mandarin of television with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share. In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a 22 share. The following year, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower with an 8 rating and a 12 share. He became morose and isolated, started to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks. The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher, who was the president of the news division at UBS. The two old friends got properly pissed.
Howard Beale: [on the street] I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in 1951.
Max Schumacher: Must've been 1950 then.
[Beale nods]
Max Schumacher: I was at NBC, uh, associate producer. Morning News. I was just a kid. 26 years old.
[Not interested, Beale wanders off, until Schumacher stops him]
Max Schumacher: Anyway... anyway... they're building a lower level of the George Washington Bridge.
[Interested, Beale listens]
Max Schumacher: We were doing a remote from there.
Howard Beale, Max Schumacher: [start to laugh and snicker in unison]
Max Schumacher: And nobody told me!
[Beale keeps laughing, very interested]
Max Schumacher: Next morning I get a call, "Where the hell are YOU? You're supposed to be in the George Washington Bridge!"
[Beale and Schumacher exchange laughs]
Max Schumacher: I jump outta bed, throw my raincoat over my pajamas, I run downstairs, I run into the street,
[Schumacher runs into the street]
Max Schumacher: SO I TAIL A CAB, AND I SAY TO THE CABBY, "TAKE ME TO THE MIDDLE OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE!"
[Beale laughs]
Max Schumacher: And the cabby turns around and he says...
[giggles]
Max Schumacher: he says "Don't do it, buddy! You're a young man! Ya got your whole life ahead of ya!"
Howard Beale, Max Schumacher: [shriek in hysterics, as Beale gives Schumacher a hug]
Max Schumacher: Did I ever tell ya that one before?
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Narrator: This story is about Howard Beale, the acclaimed news anchorman on UBS T.V. In this time, however, he was a mandarin of television with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share. In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline. He fell to a 22 share. The following year, his wife died, and he was left a childless widower with an 8 rating and a 12 share. He became morose and isolated, started to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks. The news was broken to him by Max Schumacher, who was the president of the news division at UBS. The two old friends got properly pissed.
Howard Beale: [on the street] I was at CBS with Ed Murrow in 1951.
Max Schumacher: Must've been 1950 then.
[Beale nods]
Max Schumacher: I was at NBC, uh, associate producer. Morning News. I was just a kid. 26 years old.
[Not interested, Beale wanders off, until Schumacher stops him]
Max Schumacher: Anyway... anyway... they're building a lower level of the George Washington Bridge.
[Interested, Beale listens]
Max Schumacher: We were doing a remote from there.
Howard Beale, Max Schumacher: [start to laugh and snicker in unison]
Max Schumacher: And nobody told me!
[Beale keeps laughing, very interested]
Max Schumacher: Next morning I get a call, "Where the hell are YOU? You're supposed to be in the George Washington Bridge!"
[Beale and Schumacher exchange laughs]
Max Schumacher: I jump outta bed, throw my raincoat over my pajamas, I run downstairs, I run into the street,
[Schumacher runs into the street]
Max Schumacher: SO I TAIL A CAB, AND I SAY TO THE CABBY, "TAKE ME TO THE MIDDLE OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE!"
[Beale laughs]
Max Schumacher: And the cabby turns around and he says...
[giggles]
Max Schumacher: he says "Don't do it, buddy! You're a young man! Ya got your whole life ahead of ya!"
Howard Beale, Max Schumacher: [shriek in hysterics, as Beale gives Schumacher a hug]
Max Schumacher: Did I ever tell ya that one before?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in 'Network': The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky (2006) (V)
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FAQ
Is "Network" based on a book?How does "Network" end?
Any recommendations for a female character as annoying as Diana Christensen?
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It is the only word I can come up with to describe this masterfully savage satire, and IMHO, it's the only word that need be used.
Once I had seen ALTERED STATES and read the novel, I was hungry to find out more about the late novelist/playwright/screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, and sought out this movie. It blew me away years ago, but I find it even more stunning now. Not just because of the writing, Sidney Lumet's taut direction or the Oscar-caliber performances by everyone involved, all of which are almost beyond being lauded with superlatives.
But what knocks me out is how Chayefsky seemed less to be writing from the power of his imagination, than channeling Our Times Now. As if he was capable of some form of mental time travel; able to look into the Nineties and beyond to see the coming of SURVIVOR, or Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, Bill O'Reilly and Paris Hilton. Even HE probably didn't know how he knew, but he sure as hell felt it and wrote it down for us to marvel over today.
Sure, there are political and cultural analogies throughout the picture that are dated. But the core of his vision remains startlingly clear and eerily prophetic. As for Howard Beale, there is not one single "celebrity" who mirrors that character today, but maybe he is a composite of several different personalities with whom we have become all too familiar in the world of "news-fo-tainment." Or maybe he simply hasn't materialized yet. Maybe that is just how far ahead of its time NETWORK really was.
After all, being "mad as hell" nowadays has so many more layers of meaning than it did nearly thirty years ago...