The cruel and caustic story of Howard Beale, a newscaster who had a breakdown due to the loss of his family, the booze, and all the fallacies he regurgitated to millions of automatous viewers.
The ugly truth is Beale’s new weapon of choice to bury everything he hates, including the greedy and corrupt superiors who placed him in a new job and labeled him as an angry prophet or media messiah, immoral individuals who own that old brainwashing machine par excellence called television and whose only religion is that of the money and ratings.
Fine performances. Brilliant and outrageous screenplay.