Faye Dunaway	Diana Christensen
William Holden	Max Schumacher
Peter Finch	Howard Beale
Robert Duvall	Frank Hackett
Wesley Addy	Nelson Chaney
Ned Beatty	Arthur Jensen
Arthur Burghardt	Great Ahmed Kahn
Bill Burrows	TV Director
John Carpenter	George Bosch
Jordan Charney	Harry Hunter

Director	Sidney Lumet
Producer	Howard Gottfried Fred C. Caruso
Writer	Paddy Chayefsky

When Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is given two weeks notice for dismissal from being a TV news anchorman because of low ratings. During his last two weeks he begins to lose his mind. His rantings on live television about modern greed and corporate corruption capture the interest of audiences. But he gets his greatest ratings ever when he threatens to commit suicide on air. When TV excecutive Max Schumacher (William Holden) at the parent company Communications Corporation of America (CCA) notices what great ratings Howard's honest talk is getting, he gives Howard his own live show to broadcast the counter-culture ideas pervasive in America. Producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) pushes Howard harder and harder to go more extreme for better ratings. But the hit show they have created begins to turn against its creator when Howard targets CCA is the symbol of everything that is wrong in America.

Edition Details Audience Rating R (Restricted) Country USA Language English Distributor Warner Home Video Barcode 012569509122 Region Region 1 Release Date 2/24/1998 Packaging Keep Case Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3) Widescreen (1.85:1) Subtitles English; French; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned) Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital Mono [English] Layers Dual Side, Dual Layer No. of Disks/Tapes 1 Features Interactive Menus Never-Before-Available Widescreen Format Trivia and Production Notes "Hidden Menu Page" with History of the Neilson Ratings System Interactive Quiz Game Original Theater trailer

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