Tuesday Movie Matinee: Network

rated R, run time 2hrs, 01min We're celebrating the 50th anniversaries of two Academy Award winning films this month! Best Picture nominee about a mentally unstable news anchor who, after being told he's to be fired, becomes a media superstar when he begins delivering nightly rants and threatens an on-air suicide for his final broadcast. Paddy Chayevsky's script won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; Peter Firth received a posthumous Best Actor award as the unhinged newsman; and Faye Dunaway won Best Actress as a scheming network exec. Starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, and Wesley Addy. Directed by Sidney Lumet.