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DVD Release Date:

02/24/1998

Run Time:

121min.

Starring:

Faye Dunaway , William Holden , Peter Finch , Robert Duvall , Wesley Addy

Director(s):

Sidney Lumet

Genre(s):

Comedy,Drama

Plot: A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he "skews old. Read More

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