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Mad City, 1997

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta

Directed by: Costa Gavras

Written by: Tom Matthews

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 115 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.1

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The mood of Mad City is suspenseful, clever, and thought provoking. The plot centers around workplace intrigue, journalism, and hostages. It features dark humor. Mad City is a drama and thriller movie. Stylistically, it is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. Mad City happens in the 1990s.

Summary of Mad City

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.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	7 November 1997
Runtime:	115 min

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Dustin Hoffman

as Max Brackett

John Travolta

as Sam Baily

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Entertainment Weekly

Director Costa-Gavras packs a whole lotta hectoring into this high-strung morality play about the broadcast media's culpability in the escalation of human drama into camera-ready Greek tragedy. Full Review

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by: Lisa Schwarzbaum

San Francisco Chronicle

Not for a minute is Mad City anything less than entertaining. Yet it becomes frustrating nonetheless. Its ideas gradually seem to be at cross-purposes -- not complex, not tantalizingly ambiguous, but tangled and undefined. Full Review

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by: Mick LaSalle

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Here is another example of a movie that is trying to be a classic with big odeas and over-the-top performances that fails because it was trying to hard. 'Dog Day Afternoon' succeeds because it simply tells the story it sets out to tell, and if that... Read and rate it

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by: sethdellinger
sethdellinger rated this movie0/10

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