1976 | Comedy | Drama
121 mins United States
Acclaimed satirical comedy-drama concerning the state of the US and particularly its TV in the mid to late 1970s. A long-serving news broadcaster is fired after his ratings fall; he announces during a broadcast that he intends to commit suicide live on air. The ensuing ratings spike prompts the money men at the network to reconsider his sacking, but where will all this end...?
| Produced by | MGM/United Artists |
| Director | Sidney Lumet |
| Writer | Paddy Chayefsky |
| Cast | Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight and Arthur Burghardt |
satire eerily prophetic
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