Network (Two-Disc Special Edition) From:Faye Dunaway , William Holden , Peter Finch , Robert Duvall , Wesley Addy , Sidney Lumet , Warner Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0012569692428
Format: Anamorphic
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: Dubbed
Format: Original recording remastered
Format: NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Product Description:
Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports of cute puppies, movie premieres and fender benders as hard news: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore." Sidney Lumet directs Paddy Chayefsky's satire (an Academy Award-winning* screenplay) about the things people do for love...and ratings. Three performers won Oscars.* Best Actress Faye Dunaway is the TV exec guarding ratings like a tigress protecting cubs. Best Actor Peter Finch is Beale, whose airwave rants become a phenomenon. And William Holden, Robert Duvall and Best Supporting Actress Beatrice Straight add to the fierce vitality. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:by Director Sidney Lumet
Theatrical Trailer
Documentaries:The Making of Network (6-part Documentary): The World and Words of Paddy Chayefsky; The Cast, the Characters; The Experience; The Style; Mad as Hell! The Creation of a Movie Moment; A Classic; Network by Walter Cronkite
Featurette:Dinah! Episodes featuring Peter Finch (1976) and Paddy Chayefsky (1977)
Customer Reviews:
 Why this film is still relevant today, 2008-08-11
It must have been at least 20 years since this film was made and it is amazing that it is still relevant today. Director Sidney Lumet has lined up fantastic cast and found even better screenwriter that has made this movie to be one of the everlasting classics of the American cinema. Throughout the film we observe characters from the network television pushing their way around network for their personal gain. The rule of the game is "ratings" and those better be good or heads will roll. And if the american public is not watching news for its value, then what can enhance sagging ratings: scandal, popular demand or modern prophecies of the time? As news descend into entertainment value for the sake of the ratings, high level executives are too busy brokering deals: selling air time to marketing companies, terrorist groups, even communists; paying off high interest loans to foreign investors, firing anyone on their way of achieving goal of becoming financially successful. 20 years ago, Lumet told us, thru this film that rule of capitalism, democracy and american way is one way - make money. One must do whatever it takes to make that goal a reality. It is amazing how relevant this film still is today. Not much has changed at all.
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