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Mad City (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 10  Rotten:17 Average Rating: 5.2/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs

Synopsis: When a recently fired museum guard files a grievance with his boss by menacing her with a shotgun and ends up with a gaggle of schoolkid hostages, it seems like the perfect opportunity for a has-been news anchor to revive his flagging career. Indeed, the ratings soar, with the newsman inflating... When a recently fired museum guard files a grievance with his boss by menacing her with a shotgun and ends up with a gaggle of schoolkid hostages, it seems like the perfect opportunity for a has-been news anchor to revive his flagging career. Indeed, the ratings soar, with the newsman inflating the standoff and priming his slow-witted star for the limelight. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner, Ted Levine

Director: Costa Gavras
Story: Tom Matthews, Eric Williams
Screenwriter: Tom Matthews
Composer: Thomas Newman
Producer: Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 29, 2005

[DVD Details]
  • Mad City
  • A network television journalist is banished to a backwater station for bad behavior on the job. He meets a security guard who got laid off and the two form a bond of mutual need which changes the course of their lives forever.
  • Year: 1997
  • Source: Warner Home Video

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    1.5/4

    Mad City is a waste of your time and money.

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    05/23/07
    Gary Brown
    Houston Community Newspapers
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    This simplistic and obvious expose about the manipulative power of the news media (lazily acted by Travoilta and Hoffman) is so familiar that it's not going to upset or provoke anyone.

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    Derek Adams
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    ...a film of mild pleasures and mild annoyances, alternately tired and clever yet ultimately dismissible.

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    Clint Morris
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    'The media are vultures' is the prevailing point here, and it is not expressed in the most original or interesting of ways.

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    Michael Dequina
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    02/24/04
    Linda Cook
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    Compelling analysis of the modern media. Somewhat obvious, but still works.

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