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Release Date: 1997
Cast: Ted Levine, Sylvia Short, Lucinda Jenney, Tammy Lauren, John Travolta, William O'Leary, Kyla Pratt, Akosua Busia, Scanlon Gail, Blythe Danner, Robert Prosky, Alan Alda ...MORE
Cast: Ted Levine, Sylvia Short, Lucinda Jenney, Tammy Lauren, John Travolta, William O'Leary, Kyla Pratt, Akosua Busia, Scanlon Gail, Blythe Danner, Robert Prosky, Alan Alda, Dustin Hoffman, Ebbe Roe Smith, Mia Kirshner, Bingwa, William Atherton, Raymond J. Barry, Jay Leno ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Crime Thriller, Drama Film, Political Drama, Thriller
Mad City is a 1997 drama film and thriller film written by Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, directed by Costa-Gavras, and starring Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, and Larry King.
Sam Baily gets laid off from his job as a museum security guard. In desperation for not being able to provide for his wife and kids, he comes armed with weapons and explosives and takes his boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.
Television journalist Max Brackett is in the museum using the... MORE
Mad City is a 1997 drama film and thriller film written by Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, directed by Costa-Gavras, and starring Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, and Larry King.
Sam Baily gets laid off from his job as a museum security guard. In desperation for not being able to provide for his wife and kids, he comes armed with weapons and explosives and takes his boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.
Television journalist Max Brackett is in the museum using the restroom after an interview with the curator about financial difficulties. He becomes directly involved in the hostage situation, acting as Baily's intermediary to the outside world and the police.
Baily accidentally shoots a friend still working there as a security guard, sending him to the hospital, and later fires a gun again, frightening the children and becoming more and more unstable as he takes caffeine pills to stay awake. Along with a young intern, Laurie, Brackett reports the story exclusively on television, reviving his career. By being free to come and go, he negotiates with a national LESS
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