What is Network / The Hospital about?

NETWORK, 1976, MGM Repertory, 120 min. Director Sidney Lumet helmed this vitriolic dissection of network television from Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning script. Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar as Best Actor for his performance as Howard Beale, the fired news anchorman who goes mad on nationwide TV. Faye Dunaway (Oscar winner for Best Actress) is the new creative honcho who angles to exploit Beale’s madness to boost ratings. THE HOSPITAL, 1971, MGM Repertory, 103 min. Dir. Arthur Hiller. In a film that remains strikingly timely today, Paddy Chayefsky dismantles New York City’s disintegrating public healthcare system with this darkly comic indictment that won an Oscar for best screenplay. His personal life in a shambles, George C. Scott is the chief of medicine at a hospital where patients are dying from caregivers’ errors and mistaken identities, and absurdity takes over from science. Also staring Diana Rigg.

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What is Network / The Hospital about?: NETWORK, 1976, MGM Repertory, 120 min. Director Sidney Lumet helmed this vitriolic dissection of network television from Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning script. Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar as Best Actor for his performance as Howard Beale, the fired news anchorman who goes mad on nationwide TV. Faye Dunaway (Oscar winner for Best Actress) is the new creative honcho who angles to exploit Beale’s madness to boost ratings.
THE HOSPITAL, 1971, MGM Repertory, 103 min. Dir. Arthur Hiller. In a film that remains strikingly timely today, Paddy Chayefsky dismantles New York City’s disintegrating public healthcare system with this darkly comic indictment that won an Oscar for best screenplay. His personal life in a shambles, George C. Scott is the chief of medicine at a hospital where patients are dying from caregivers’ errors and mistaken identities, and absurdity takes over from science. Also staring Diana Rigg.