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Network
Description
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.
Actors:
Andrew Duncan,
Stanley Grover,
Mitchell Jason,
Cindy Grover,
Ted Sorel,
Lynn Klugman,
Gene Gross
Andrew Duncan
Stanley Grover
28 March 1926, Woodstock, Illinois, USA
Mitchell Jason
21 August 1921, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA
Cindy Grover
Ted Sorel
14 November 1936, San Francisco, California, USA
Lynn Klugman
Gene Gross
17 February 1920, New York City, New York, USA
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
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February 04, 2014
Network taps into the hysteria of the television business at a time when the medium was still important, a monolithic and competitive media industry hungry to tap into the next big thing and do anything for ratings.
March 27, 2015
Network is neither fair nor modest. It's full of bile, travesty, scolding -- and wry humour.
February 17, 2011
The film's never been more timely.
September 06, 2013
The mystic quality within "Network" is that it pitches curve balls at us that have meanings relative to our unique situations, and all of them encompass a value that is beyond simple comprehension.
June 26, 2007
Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time.
Times (UK)
March 27, 2015
This tale of a failing network that feeds on the mental breakdown of one of its anchors, cannibalising itself for ratings, feels as savagely relevant now as it did when it was released nearly 40 years ago.
September 26, 2016
Whatever its flaws, Network is a picture that can stand on its own. And does.
March 27, 2015
Criticised by some at the time for a certain naivety and lack of subtlety, this remains one of the most devastating condemnations of the media's urge to exploit.
January 26, 2006
Slick, 'adult', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow.
September 17, 2014
Rousing, exciting satire, if not always the most perfectly focused and sophisticated.
July 18, 2011
The plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America -- where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power -- it is just impossible to accept.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Network can be faulted both for going too far and not far enough, but it's also something that very few commercial films are these days. It's alive.