In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.... (Full plot summary below)
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In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.
Leave your thoughts about Network.
| DVD ClinicScott WeinbergRare is the social satire that rings as true as Network does, and the film is even more topical today than it was thirty years ago. |
| VarietyA.D. MurphySidney Lumet’s direction is outstanding. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid KeyesThe mystic quality within "Network" is that it pitches curve balls at us that have meanings relative to our unique situations, and all of them encompass a value that is beyond simple comprehension. |
| Common Sense MediaCharles CassadyBiting '76 satire with a media literacy lesson. |
| Salon.comCintra WilsonThe greatest screenplay ever to remain undestroyed by Hollywood. |
| Time OutChris PetitSlick, 'adult', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenWildly overrated film does have its moments. |
| The NationRobert HatchThere is plenty wrong with television, plenty to satirize. But Network prudently misses the point, dishing up an outrageous razzle-dazzle stew that will ruffle no network feathers and delight a popular audience. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSo the movie's flawed. So it leaves us with loose ends and questions. That finally doesn't bother me, because what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies. |
| EmpireColin KennedyNetwork is typical of the cool intelligence of '70s American cinema. |
