Network
1976, R, 121 min.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight.

Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar for his performance in this Paddy Chayevsky satire about television. Chayevsky, Dunaway, and Straight also won Oscars for their work in this prescient and sharply drawn comedy about the depths to which one unscrupulous station will sink.

This article appears in July 21 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.