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Directed by. Costa-Gavras. “Mad City” arrives with the last thing a movie about journalism needs--last year's news. It's about the media feeding frenzy that erupts when a museum guard takes hostages.
Summaries. A distraught man inadvertently takes a group of children hostage in a museum while a hungry, seasoned reporter tries to resurrect his career covering the story. Sam Baily, upset over losing his job, takes a natural history museum hostage. Max Brackett, journalist, is in the museum when this occurs and gets the scoop.
Mad City 1997, directed by Costa-Gavras | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Talented, ambitious but down on his luck, TV news reporter Max Brackett (Hoffman) resents working for the station in...
Mad City (1997) Movie Info Synopsis Simple security guard Sam (John Travolta) has lost his job at a museum, and in a fit of desperation, he returns and demands his boss, Mrs. Banks (Blythe...
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Nov 7, 1997 · 1 h 55 m. Summary 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. (Warner Bros.) Crime. Drama. Thriller. Directed By: Costa-Gavras. Written By: Tom Matthews, Eric Williams
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A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad. Starring John Travolta Dustin Hoffman Mia...
So "Mad City," a softball cautionary tale from Constantin Costa-Gavras, indicts only the usual suspects in its story of a simple soul who touches off an excuse for media frenzy. But...
