Mad City
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- Synopsis
- Investigative TV journalist Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) suffers setbacks and winds up filing routine reports from Madeline, California. Max and his eager intern Laurie (Mia Kirshner) are doing a story at the local Museum of Natural History when a ......
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- Starring
- John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky
- Director(s)
- Costa-Gavras
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 114 min.
Critic Reviews
But Mr. Costa-Gavras, a galvanizing filmmaker working with a splendid cast, is able to tell this story in style.Read the full review
Director Costa-Gavras packs a whole lotta hectoring into this high-strung morality play about the broadcast media's culpability in the escalation of human drama into camera-ready Greek tragedy.Read the full review
A blanket indictment like this has to be either satirically trenchant or a roundhouse punch to the gut. Tom Matthews' script takes a mushy middle ground, and the result seems less mad than just a bit addled or hacked off. [07Nov1997 Pg08.D]Read the full review
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