Mad City

Mad City

1997 · 114 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.2 (302 votes)
Dir. Costa-Gavras · Starring John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner · Music Thomas Newman

One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.

ActionDramaThriller

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.

VIBE

This film crackles with a raw, anxious energy. It's a tense, character-driven thriller that plunges you into a media circus gone wild. The atmosphere is thick with desperation and the unsettling feeling of a society on edge.

tensechaoticanxiousunsettlingpropulsivegritty realismcharacter-driven thriller90s urban dramamedia manipulationsocial unrestpower dynamicsdesperation
journalisthostagemuseum
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