Movie
1997
Mad City is a 1997 American thriller drama film directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Tom Matthews based on a story by Matthews and Eric Williams, and starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta, with a supporting cast featuring Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry and Larry King. This is Costa-Gavras's first English-language film since Music Box. The title comes from a nickname of…
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Two decades ago, in a time when films used to be divided into commercial, art and political, Costa-Gavras was the uncrowned king of political films. Through his work he tried (and to some degree succeeded) to raise public consciousness about brutality and oppression in various parts of the world. With the end of Cold War the world has changed in the way that affected Costa-Gavras' career - many of his issues stopped…More
