In this trenchant look at media exploitation, a city is mesmerized when an out-of-work security guard (John Travolta) takes a museum director hostage. Dustin Hoffman plays the reporter who views the crisis as an opportunity to boost ratings. Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner. Costa-Gavras directed., Sam Baily is upset over losing his job and takes a natural history museum hostage. Max Brackett is a journalist, in the museum when this occurs, and gets the scoop. The story spreads nationwide, and soon it is all anyone talks about. The story itself is the news, not the reason why or the real people behind it., This dramatic critique of the modern media is raised above its less-than-original premise by confident performances from Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta. Travolta is Sam Baily, an everyman museum guard who is driven to taking guns and dynamite into the museum in order ‘to get attention’ from his boss. The result is a hostage situation with Sam the unwilling captor and, among those captured, a disenfranchised newsman, Max Brackett, who sees his chance to hit the headlines once again by manipulating the gullible Sam to create a national media frenzy., This film revolves around a hostage situation in the mythical small town of Madeline, California. TV reporter Max Brackett is at the Taylor County Museum of Natural History when fired security guard Sam Baily goes postal. Realizing he’s right in the middle of breaking news, Brackett exploits the event., Dramatic critique of the modern media in which a disgruntled ex-employee attempts to get his old job back at a city museum by taking over the building at gunpoint. But things spiral out of control when circumstances lead to him taking some children hostage, giving an over-the-hill newsman a rare opportunity to hit the headlines., Powerful thriller with a television journalist taking advantage of a hostage situation, in which an ex-security guard accidentally shoots a fellow employee.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Mad City ” ?
A: The main cast includes 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,Jay Leno,Bill Nunn,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 Óscar Mechoso,Rueben Grundy,David Clennon,Stephen E. Kaufman,Richard Portnow,Bill Rafferty,Kurt Johnson,Susan 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,Caryn 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,Larry King,Milton Davis,Allan Appone,Stephen Brown,Jan Pascale,John Coffey,David Kelsey,Jonathan D. Krane,Tom Matthews,Edward Tise,Cathy Sandrich,Amanda Mackey Johnson,Bud Davis,Linda Warren,Patrick Blossier,Wolfgang Glattes,Cathy Sandrich Gelfond,Ben Morahan,Catherine Hardwicke,Deborah Nadoolman,Françoise Bonnot.
Q: When Did the “Mad City” Released?
A: The Movie “Mad City” originally aired on 1997-11-07 and released in the year of 1997.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Mad City” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Mad City” ?
A: “Mad City” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
