Network (Sidney Lumet Centenary)

18122 min

Synopsis

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” bellows “mad prophet of the airwaves” Peter Finch – with America seemingly joining in – as network news head William Holden breaks the news of his guilty affair with scheming entertainment chief Faye Dunaway to wife Beatrice Straight. Paddy Chayefsky’s scabrous satire of television eerily prefigures today’s political climate. Sidney Lumet's film won three acting Oscars: Finch (posthumously), Dunaway, and Straight – as well as for Chayefsky’s script, plus six other nominations.