Network
This media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet from a brilliantly incisive script by Paddy Chayefsky, is an X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, startlingly prescient in its anticipation of today’s outrage-driven news cycle. At a struggling television network, ambitious executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with a hit on her hands when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, transforming himself into a mad-as-hell prophet railing against the ills of modern society. But can she control the populist revolution they have unleashed on the airwaves? Garnering four Oscars, including for Dunaway, Finch, and Chayefsky, this no-holds-barred New Hollywood classic remains as fearlessly funny as it is unnervingly relevant.
Film Info
- United States
- 1976
- 121 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
- Spine #1300
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring director Sidney Lumet
- Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words (2025), a feature-length documentary about the screenwriter by Matthew Miele
- The Making of “Network”(2006), a six-part documentary by Laurent Bouzereau
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by writer andNew York Timescolumnist Jamelle Bouie
New cover by Adam Maida
Cast
- Faye Dunaway
- Diana Christensen
- William Holden
- Max Schumacher
- Peter Finch
- Howard Beale
- Robert Duvall
- Frank Hackett
- Wesley Addy
- Nelson Chaney
- Ned Beatty
- Arthur Jensen
- Beatrice Straight
- Louise Schumacher
Credits
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Produced by
- Howard Gottfried
- Directed by
- Sidney Lumet
- Written by
- Paddy Chayefsky
- Director of photography
- Owen Roizman
- Production designer
- Philip Rosenberg
- Costume designer
- Theoni V. Aldredge
- Editor
- Alan Heim
- Associate producer
- Fred Caruso
- Original music composed and conducted by
- Elliot Lawrence
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