Network (1976)
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Director: | Sidney Lumet |
Cast: | William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch |
Paddy Chayefsky's prescient script satirizing broadcast journalism packs an even more powerful punch in our current era of tabloid television and the 10-second soundbite. Executives at a foundering network are willing to air anything, no matter how profane or outrageous, to boost ratings.
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