Network
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Actor for Peter Finch and Best Actress for Faye Dunaway), Sidney Lumet's film remains as powerful and urgent almost fifty years after its release. A terrifying and timely satire packed with exhilarating performances, the time has never been better to tune back into Network.
When long-time news anchor Howard Beale is fired, he suffers a violent on-air breakdown. But when his ratings are boosted by his angry rantings, he’s rehired – and reinvented – as the ‘Mad Prophet of the Airwaves’. When the Prophet ceases to be profitable, something has to be done about Howard Beale; preferably on-camera. A stellar cast highlights this biting, award-winning satire.