Network
Beatrice Straight, Conchata Ferrell, Faye Dunaway
Howard Beale, the dean of newscasters at the United Television Network, is put out to pasture because he too old. Network executive Max Schumacher, Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad n...( read more
)
DVD Released: May 16, 2000
Recommend it
Add to Favorites
Your Rating
Top Flixster Reviews
-
April 4, 2009Network is a masterpiece. A true golden nugget of movie making. It may be 33 years old but the message rings true today. In fact it may have not dated at all. Howard Beale loses it, as a newsreader expected to deliver the news with no emotion. His outbursts at first cost him his ... ...( read more )
-
January 17, 2009"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Network is one of the best films I've seen in a long time and easily one of the best films ever.
-
December 13, 2008A very candid no-holds-barred look at television executives and what they do for ratings. The entire cast is nothing short of incredible, taking one side or the other over whether to keep Howard Beale on the air or not. Finch got a well-deserved Oscar for his role as a broken-dow... ...( read more )
-
July 21, 2008Peter Finch won an Oscar from beyond the grave for his performance as the manic newscaster Howard Beale in Sydney Lumet's Network, an honor that was quite deserved. Network is about the UBS network, the fourth place gutterball station that decides to fire Finch's character which ... ...( read more )
-
April 21, 2008Network is a masterpiece of a film. This film has a stellar cast; Faye Dunaway, Williams Holden, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty and more.
This film centers on an older high profile and acclaimed journalist (Holden) whom is facing being fired due to his age. The ruthless media head... ...( read more ) -
June 15, 2009""NETWORK"... the humanoids, the love story, the trials and tribulations, the savior of television, the attempted suicides, the assassination -- it's ALL coming along with a galaxy of stars you know and love"
Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsk... ...( read more )
Critic Reviews
View more
Network
reviews at RottenTomatoes.com
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Comments
This board looks lonely. Be the first to talk about "Network" !
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
