City Hall

Mayor John Pappas is the most popular mayor New York has had in years and owes a lot of his success to his dedicated protege and deputy mayor Kevin Calhoun, a Louisiana native. When a small boy is caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between police and a known mafioso, Pappas knows it’s a threat to his administration and rises to the challenge. But Calhoun notices something very fishy about the mafioso’s probation report he begins an investigation which will have far-reaching consequences., Three A-list screenwriters — (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) — contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a detective and mobster kill each other and an innocent six-year-old black child in a shootout, questions arise about what the cop was doing meeting with the gangster in the first place. The Mayor and his staff handle the situation ably, but Calhoun digs deeper and finds troubling evidence that even his seemingly incorruptible boss has not escaped the shadier aspects of political life. The Mafia boss (Tony Franciosa) whose nephew was the dead gangster, along with a Brooklyn political boss (Danny Aiello) with his own agenda, come into the story, becoming part of a series of larger links, secret relationships, and bonds of “honor” between men who, on the surface, would have no reason to be in business with each other., Urban thriller in which New York’s mayor and his deputy investigate a confrontation between a cop and a drug dealer which resulted in the death of a child. Deputy Mayor Calhoun is a young idealist with clear-cut views on everything; however, Mayor Pappas works in various shades of grey to get the job done. When a stray bullet from a shoot-out between a cop and a drug dealer kills a six-year-old black child, the fabric of City Hall begins to unravel, torn by the suspicious events that led to a deadly confrontation., New York’s idealistic deputy mayor uncovers a high-level scandal while investigating the shooting death of a 6-year-old boy., To a young idealist like New York City’s Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun life is either black or white, but to a veteran politician like Mayor John Pappas the game is played in various shades of gray. Together, they are a formidable team. Until the morning when in a shoot-out between a cop and a drug dealer, a stray bullet kills a six year old black child.