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Mad City

  • 1997
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  • 1h 54min
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6,3/10
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Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta in Mad City (1997)
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Lire trailer0:31
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Un vigile mécontent prend en otage un groupe en voyage scolaire alors qu'un journaliste de télévision se lie d'amitié avec lui.Un vigile mécontent prend en otage un groupe en voyage scolaire alors qu'un journaliste de télévision se lie d'amitié avec lui.Un vigile mécontent prend en otage un groupe en voyage scolaire alors qu'un journaliste de télévision se lie d'amitié avec lui.

  • Réalisation
    • Costa-Gavras
  • Scénario
    • Tom Matthews
    • Eric Williams
  • Casting principal
    • John Travolta
    • Dustin Hoffman
    • Alan Alda
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,3/10
    22 k
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Costa-Gavras
    • Scénario
      • Tom Matthews
      • Eric Williams
    • Casting principal
      • John Travolta
      • Dustin Hoffman
      • Alan Alda
    • 84avis d'utilisateurs
    • 51avis des critiques
    • 45Métascore
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 nomination au total

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    John Travolta
    John Travolta
    • Sam
    Dustin Hoffman
    Dustin Hoffman
    • Brackett
    Alan Alda
    Alan Alda
    • Kevin Hollander
    Mia Kirshner
    Mia Kirshner
    • Laurie
    Robert Prosky
    Robert Prosky
    • Lou Potts
    Blythe Danner
    Blythe Danner
    • Mrs. Banks
    William Atherton
    William Atherton
    • Dohlen
    Ted Levine
    Ted Levine
    • Lemke
    Tammy Lauren
    Tammy Lauren
    • Miss Rose
    William O'Leary
    William O'Leary
    • CTN Junior Executive
    Raymond J. Barry
    Raymond J. Barry
    • Dobbins
    Lucinda Jenney
    Lucinda Jenney
    • Jenny
    Akosua Busia
    Akosua Busia
    • Diane
    Ebbe Roe Smith
    Ebbe Roe Smith
    • Bartholomew
    Bingwa
    • Nat Jackson
    Chris Byrne
    Chris Byrne
    • KXBD Cameraman
    Bobby Brewer
    • The Kids
    Max Becker
    • The Kids
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      • Costa-Gavras
    • Scénario
      • Tom Matthews
      • Eric Williams
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    7helpless_dancer

    one man's insanity reigns after he loses his job

    Interesting look at an emotionally crippled man as he goes out of control after losing his job. He holds several children and a few adults hostage in a museum after the curator refused to discuss his termination. One of the hostages is a newsman who winds up acting as the liaison between the police and the gunman. The situation leads to national prominence, drawing in an unscrupulous network newsman who only wanted to feather his own nest with the story. Good movie about a not unbelievable happening.
    7daumas

    Another Costa-Gavras Movie

    Costa-Gavras is known as a political director and the most part of his movies are intriguing and makes us thinking about our way of see/accept the political facts in world. Although this movie is not necessarily political, makes us thinking at this time, about the influence of the media in the facts and in our lives. In this movies, two different lives had being linked by a casual meeting in a museum: A reporter (Dustin Hoffman) whose career was marked by a mistake made in a network, is trying to "resurrect" his work making a report about a financial scandal when he's sent to make a report in a museum. At the same time, a guard of the museum (John Travolta), fired some days before because of cut of budget, goes there trying to have a conversation with the manager and convince her to give his job back. At the same time that the reporter realizes it can be a resurrection for him, the things run out of control when other media reporter challenges the guard and him... Besides the excellent performances of Hoffman and Travolta, Costa-Gavras makes once more, a very smart movie that can't be missed.
    6khatcher-2

    Costa-Gavras is certainly worth a little of your time

    A second seeing of this film recently confirmed my impressions on seeing `Missing' (1982)(qv) also a second time a few months back. Costa-Gavras has things to say and he does not mince up his message.

    In `Missing' he succeeded in getting Jack Lemmon to play a convincing role, and in `Mad City' he managed to get John Travolta to carry out the best role I have seen him in: his playing of a deranged simple worker real mad at having lost his job is truly memorable. Dustin Hoffman ably supports but without exceeding himself overly.

    However, rather than the actors in themselves, it is the story itself which is more important and its message: getting the story on your TV news programme before your competitors is much more important than any other considerations – such as in this case, a group of schoolchildren held hostage with a shotgun aimed at them. But do not worry about them – get the story live on TV at any price, what a scoop! what a sensation!

    And thus we live at the dictates of that ogre of communications called TV: whether wars in Rwanda or Afghanistan or Palestinians blowing themselves up in Israeli cafés or airliners crashing into the WTC, the most important thing is to get it live on screen for the hungry masses. We are at the mercy of papirazzi, that merciless squad of camera-toting fame-seekers, who have no scruples at getting their story first or even inventing it.

    Thanks for the message, Costa-Gavras: I learnt it long ago, but you tell it well.
    8krumski

    Unfairly overlooked; best examination of media power and corruption

    I was so depressed when I left this movie - depressed in a good way though, in the way the filmmakers wanted me to be. "The media has become an out-of-control circus," I thought to myself. Certainly not an original thought or insight, and not extremely different from many other movies and stories out there with a similar message. The difference with "Mad City", though, was that it didn't play this insight for satire or sly comedy. There's an anger and a sadness that runs through the entire movie - a burning regret that this is the way things have to be. The filmmakers could have easily reached for humor or gaudy overstatement to make their points (as was done, say, in "Network" or "Natural Born Killers") but instead they keep most everything at the human level, and that makes all the difference. We come to feel really bad for the Travolta character; the screenwriters' making him such a simpleton is, I'll admit, a bit manipulative, but as manipulations go it's a good one and a smart one - it lets us see the toll in human terms of the media frenzy. Dustin Hoffman and particularly Alan Alda are expert in their roles as media sharks, and the sort of Mutt and Jeff (or perhaps George and Lenny) relationship which Hoffman and Travolta get into here is really marvelous. It has beats of comedy to it, while never being anything less than totally serious (kind of like Hoffman and Cruise in "Rain Man" - though the film never strains for that connection).

    I think of this movie often in conjunction with "Wag the Dog," Hoffman's other movie that year and for me it's no comparison: "Wag the Dog" is gleefully cynical, seems to take real joy in the media being so ever-present and the audience being so easily conned. For me, that rings as hollow satire; "Mad City" by truly trying to examine and get us to think about (not just laugh at) the media's power is miles away the better film.
    8csi87

    Excellent depiction as to the power of the national news media

    I just finished watching this movie and I must say that I am awestruck. Everyone around the globe should be exposed to the truth of what the national news media has at their fingertips, the power to move the public opinion to one side or the other. This film exemplifies to the last period exactly what I fear so many are ignorant to, and that is the fact that what we see and hear on our televisions everyday lies in the palm of executives and celebrities (news anchors) who run the networks. I was amazed at the amount of detail that was put into this film to show exactly that. Nothing is left unsaid. Bravo to a production all too unknown.

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    Le saviez-vous

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    • Anecdotes
      In an interview, Dustin Hoffman mentioned that whenever he appears in a movie he dislikes, or one that performs poorly with critics or audiences, he tends to give nicknames to those movies. This one he has referred to as "Mad Shitty."
    • Citations

      Lou Potts: Jeez, I sent you to cover a piece of fluff, and you come back with a hostage situation.

    • Connexions
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Red Corner/Critical Care/Switchback/Family Name (1997)
    • Bandes originales
      Jenny's Garden
      Written and Produced by Philippe Sarde

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 4 février 1998 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Thành phố điên cuồng
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Capital Club Athletics, N. 3rd Street, San Jose, Californie, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Warner Bros.
      • Arnold Kopelson Productions
      • Punch Productions
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    Box-office

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    • Budget
      • 50 000 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 10 541 523 $US
    • Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 4 649 742 $US
      • 9 nov. 1997
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 10 541 523 $US
    Voir les infos détaillées du box-office sur IMDbPro

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    • Durée
      • 1h 54min(114 min)
    • Couleur
      • Color
    • Mixage
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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