MAD CITY (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta team with award-winning flimmaker Costa Gavras (Z, Missing) in a fierce tale of tatings-driven TV news bone mad. Travolta is Sam, a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Hoffman is Max, a local TV reporter taken hostage with schoolchildren when Sam locks down the museum. It's a desperate move for Sam, a career move for Max. He's on the inside of a live exclusive. Now he must give Sam's story a heroic spin, keep a cynical network anchor (Alan Alda) at bay and above all, keep America watching. And as Max pulls the strings, the stakes grow higher, darker, madder.
• Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine, Tammy Lauren, William O'Leary, Raymond J. Barry, Lucinda Jenney, Akosua Busia, Ebbe Roe Smith, Bingwa, Chris Byrne, Bobby Brewer, Max Becker, Philip David Robinson, Milton Davis Jr., Jeremy Espinoza, Nicole Fellows, Victoria Gregson, Molly Hager, Sarah Haney, Kyla Pratt, Paige Tamada, Hannah Vaughan, Dyllan Christopher, Kiersten Nally, Sylvia Short, Scanlon Gail, Charlie Holliday, Kevin Cooney, John Landis, Susan Segal, Jenna Byrne, Jason Cottle, Randall Batinkoff, Julian Wall, Laura Davis, Nick Scoggin, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Rueben Grundy, David Clennon, Jay Leno, Stephen E. Kaufman, Richard Portnow, Bill Rafferty, Kurt Johnson, Susan A. Burig, D. Seifert, J.P. Bumstead, Sean O'Kane, Donal O'Sullivan, Lee Ann Manley, Velina Brown, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier, Patricia Smith, Adina Goldman, Roger Shamas, Stephen Brown, Richard Gross, Adam M. Koppekin, Aaron Lucich, Toian Matchinga, Tom Fridley, Christopher Michael Moore, Dirk Blocker, Pamela S. Laws, John Halbleib, Shannon L. Linke, Eric Wycoff, Norman Berry, Chad Russell, Steven Lazaneo, Omar Lima, Lana Antonova, Allan A. Apone, Rick Camp, Shawn Flanagan, Tim Halpin, Larry King, Bill Nunn, Bob Quinn, Rocco Salata, Maridean Mansfield Shepard, Julie Wagner, Costa-Gavras, Tom Matthews, Eric Williams
• Director: Costa-Gavras
• Runtime: 1:55
• Media Format: Movie