Mad City
by Costa-Gavras
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Actor: Alan Alda, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Mia Kirshner, Robert ProskyDirector: Costa-Gavras
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Anne Kopelson
Producer: Arnold Kopelson
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane
Producer: Linda Warren
Producer: Stephen Brown
Writer: Eric Williams
Writer: Tom Matthews
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of Mad City
A desperate man. A hostage crisis. Its an explosive situation. And one career driven tv reporter wants to make sure it explodes just in time for the nightly news. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: John Travolta Mia Kirshner Run time: 144 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Costa GavrasThis earnest effort at media criticism is never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story. What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. The DVD release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, production notes, theatrical trailer, television spots, optional French soundtrack, French or Spanish subtitles, and Dolby sound. --Tom Keogh
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