Network
1976 | Drama | USA | Directed by Sidney Lumet
Overview
A news anchor announces he will kill himself on air, ratings soar, and the network gives him a pulpit for rage. Chayefskys script called reality television and outrage economics forty years early. I am mad as hell and I am not going to take this anymore entered the language. Finch won a posthumous Oscar, and the film plays less like satire every year.
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