Mad City (film)

Infobox Film
name = Mad City


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director = Costa Gavras
producer = Arnold Kopelson
Anne Kopelson
writer = Tom Matthews &
Eric Williams (story)
Tom Matthews (screenplay)
narrator =
starring = John Travolta
Dustin Hoffman
Mia Kirshner
Alan Alda
Ted Levine
William Atherton
Raymond J. Barry
with Robert Prosky
and Blythe Danner
Cameo as Himself:
Jay Leno
Larry King
music = Thomas Newman
cinematography = Patrick Blossier
editing = Françoise Bonnot
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = November 7, 1997 (USA)
runtime = 114 min.
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language = English
budget = $52,000,000 (estimated)
gross = $10,541,523 (USA)
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website = http://movies.warnerbros.com/madcity/
amg_id = 1:158854
imdb_id = 0119592

"Mad City" is a 1997 drama and thriller film written by Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, directed by Costa Gavras, and starring John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, Jay Leno, and Larry King.

Plot

The film is about a man named Sam Baily (Travolta) who gets laid off from his job as a museum security guard and takes the museum hostage. A journalist (Hoffman) is in the museum at the time and breaks the story and a media circus erupts.

Reception

As of August 2007, the film had a score of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 28 reviews; on Metacritic, the film had a score of 45 out of 100 (mixed or average reviews) based on 23 reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert said "Mad City" is inspired by the film "Ace in the Hole", and gave the movie two stars, saying "the movie knows what it wants to do, but lacks the velocity for lift-off."cite web|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19971107/REVIEWS/711070304/1023 |title=Reviews - Mad City |accessdate=2007-08-05 |author=Roger Ebert |date=1997-11-07 |publisher="Chicago Sun-Times"]

In the United States, the film opened at #6 at the box office with an opening weekend gross of $4.6 million. The film eventually went on to gross $10.5 million. [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=madcity.htm Mad City (1997) ] ]

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*imdb title|id=0119592|title=Mad City
*rotten-tomatoes|id=mad_city|title=Mad City
*metacritic film|id=madcity|title=Mad City
*mojo title|id=madcity|title=Mad City