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When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate incisive institutional satire, volatile performances, and bleakly prophetic critiques of profit-driven news culture.
- Tone
- satirical, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- media manipulation, corporate power, public rage, profit, moral compromise
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, metropolitan television newsroom and corporate media offices
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