Mad City (film)

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Mad City
Directed by	Costa Gavras
Produced by	Arnold Kopelson Anne Kopelson
Written by	Tom Matthews & Eric Williams (story) Tom Matthews (screenplay)
Starring	John Travolta Dustin Hoffman Mia Kirshner Alan Alda Blythe Danner Ted Levine William Atherton Raymond J. Barry Jay Leno Larry King
Music by	Thomas Newman
Cinematography	Patrick Blossier
Editing by	Françoise Bonnot
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	November 7, 1997 (USA)
Running time	114 min.
Language	English
Budget	$52,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue	$10,541,523 (USA)
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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.

1 Plot
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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."^[1]

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.^[2]