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City Hall: Conspiração no Alto Escalão

Título original: City Hall
  • 1996
  • R
  • 1 h 51 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,2/10
23 mil
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John Cusack, Al Pacino, and Bridget Fonda in City Hall: Conspiração no Alto Escalão (1996)
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Political ThrillerCrimeDramaMysteryThriller

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  • Direção
    • Harold Becker
  • Roteiristas
    • Ken Lipper
    • Paul Schrader
    • Nicholas Pileggi
  • Artistas
    • Al Pacino
    • John Cusack
    • Bridget Fonda
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,2/10
    23 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Harold Becker
    • Roteiristas
      • Ken Lipper
      • Paul Schrader
      • Nicholas Pileggi
    • Artistas
      • Al Pacino
      • John Cusack
      • Bridget Fonda
    • 84Avaliações de usuários
    • 48Avaliações da crítica
    • 62Metascore
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Al Pacino
    Al Pacino
    • Mayor John Pappas
    John Cusack
    John Cusack
    • Kevin Calhoun
    Bridget Fonda
    Bridget Fonda
    • Marybeth Cogan
    Danny Aiello
    Danny Aiello
    • Frank Anselmo
    Martin Landau
    Martin Landau
    • Judge Walter Stern
    David Paymer
    David Paymer
    • Abe Goodman
    Anthony Franciosa
    Anthony Franciosa
    • Paul Zapatti
    • (as Tony Franciosa)
    Richard Schiff
    Richard Schiff
    • Larry Schwartz
    Lindsay Duncan
    Lindsay Duncan
    • Sydney Pappas
    Nestor Serrano
    Nestor Serrano
    • Det. Eddie Santos
    Mel Winkler
    • Det. Holly
    Luna Lauren Velez
    Luna Lauren Velez
    • Elaine Santos
    • (as Lauren Vélez)
    Chloe Morris
    • Maria Santos
    Ian Quinlan
    Ian Quinlan
    • Randy Santos
    Roberta Peters
    Roberta Peters
    • Nettie Anselmo
    Angel David
    Angel David
    • Vinnie Zapatti
    Larry Romano
    Larry Romano
    • Tino Zapatti
    Rob LaBelle
    Rob LaBelle
    • James Wakeley
    • Direção
      • Harold Becker
    • Roteiristas
      • Ken Lipper
      • Paul Schrader
      • Nicholas Pileggi
    • Elenco e equipe completos
    • Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro

    Avaliações de usuários84

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    8PyrolyticCarbon

    Excellent acting and a wonderfully quiet script

    Excellent political thriller, played much quieter and slower than other, higher ranking films in this genre. When people talk about Pacino and Cusack how do they manage to skip over these amazing career topping performances? A story of friendships, father-son relationships, corruption and deceit. The two actors gel amazingly well together, and the supports from Aiello and Fonda are equally as impressive, although Aiello is brilliant, especially when the papers run to press. Instead of focussing on an over complex corruption scandal, it creates wonderful characters who show the human side of failure an political bribery, The final scenes with each of the main characters are wonderfully written and acted.
    7djacome-99185

    A must-see for Pacino (and Aiello fans)

    Pacino offers another stellar performance in this generally captivating political suspense story - starts off a bit slow but then the script really begins to gel a third through the film, leading to a terrific Greek tragedy imbued climax. If you generally like movies underscoring power struggles, under the table mischief, and on-location NYC film shooting, you can't go wrong giving this film a try - generally it never really struck a chord with most big shot critics but that doesn't mean it doesnt have its appeal - especially for genre lovers.
    7Prismark10

    City Hall Intrigue

    This is one of the best acted political films you will see.

    At the beginning you get a good idea of some of the wheeling and dealing the local politicians do just to get votes and keep various factions satisfied.

    There are four writers credited with the screenplay and three of those are recognised top drawer writers.

    It is obvious that the film has gone through various manifestations, gestations, rewrites and conceptual readjustments before a final, locked script emerged.

    The movie dealing with a shooting that leaves a cop dead as well as an innocent child sets off a chain of events that leads to political skulduggery.

    While others might find the film hard going, even dense, there is no denying the quality of the acting.
    8g0b0

    Complex but Worth Repeated Viewings

    I read the negative comments before viewing this film and undeterred, went ahead and started watching. I admit that I had to rewind quite a few times as the film is incredibly complex, involved and full of detail. That is a good thing but also, quite unexpected in this culture of car chases, explosions, gratuitous sex and general violence that substitute for plot and character development. In fact, what a welcome departure, however, I am so used to not paying a lot of attention to what I watch.

    This film is chock full of character development and plot line; the kind that we used to analyze when I was in high school. It requires actual mental participation on the part of the viewer. What a nice change. I would compare it to 'All The President's Men' in terms of generic subject matter. That is, it is a mystery about intense misconduct on the part of elected officials and those with enough influence upon officials to essentially 'own' them.

    Unlike 'All The President's Men', this film makes an effort to give a couple of the characters actual personality. In this sense the movie is a character study like 'The Negotiatior' with Samuel Jackson and Kevin Spacey. In that movie, their characters are both city employees and the plot is extremely intense. Yet, the plot is dependent on the ability of their characters to cooperate with each other, trust each, and ultimately unite together against the corrupt Police Department. There is more gun fire in this film and the specific plot is different but generically, there are many similarities.

    I WILL say that City Hall requires a whole lot more concentration. In fact, I was struck how parallel it was to past and present political scandals I've seen in my life going back to Watergate. The thing is, the public knows that something is wrong, for sure! but following the details is hard to do. This movie is not even close to being as complex as real life but it actually is realistic to life in its complexity. I think that is one of the reasons that previous posters have criticized the film: unrealistic expectations.

    If one watches this knowing what they are about to see and are up to the experience, it really is excellent! I watched it 3 times in a row! The acting is superb and the directing is flawless. The weakest link is John Cusak's accent.
    8bkoganbing

    Politics in The Big Apple

    Being a transplanted New Yorker, I might be more critical than most in watching City Hall. But I have to say that before even getting to the story itself I was captivated by the location shooting and the political atmosphere of New York City that Director Harold Becker created.

    For example there's a reference to Woerner's Restaurant in Brooklyn where political boss Frank Anselmo likes to eat. There is or was a Woerner's Restaurant on Remsen Street in downtown Brooklyn when I lived in New York back in 1996. It was in fact particularly favored by political people in the Borough though they did have a couple of other hangouts.

    No surprise because the script was co-authored by Nicholas Pileggi who still writes both political and organized crime stories. He knows the atmosphere quite well and he sure knows how those two worlds cross as they do in this film.

    A detective played by Nestor Serrano goes for an unofficial meeting with a relative of mob boss Anthony Franciosa and things erupt and three people wind up dead, including an innocent 6 year old boy whose father was walking him to school. The story mushrooms and at the end it's reached inside City Hall itself.

    Al Pacino plays Mayor John Pappas and John Cusack is his Deputy Mayor a transplanted Louisianan, a state which has a tradition of genteel corruption itself. He's the outsider here and in trying to do damage control, Cusack finds more than he bargained for,

    Danny Aiello plays Brooklyn political boss Frank Anselmo and for those of you not from New York, his character is based on the late Borough President of Queens Donald Manes who was also brought down by scandal. He's very much the kind of Brooklyn politician I knew back in the day whose friendship with organized crime and favors done for them, do Aiello in.

    City Hall was the farewell performance on film for Anthony Franciosa, one of the most underrated and under-appreciated talents ever on the screen. No one watches anyone else whenever he's on.

    Al Pacino's best moment is when at the funeral of the young child killed, he takes over the proceedings and turns it into a political triumph for himself. His is a complex part, he's a decent enough man, but one caught up in the corruption it takes to rise in a place like New York.

    For those who want to know about political life in the Big Apple, City Hall is highly recommended.

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    • Curiosidades
      To help prepare for his role, Al Pacino spent time with then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins.
    • Erros de gravação
      Although the action of the film covers only a few days, Kevin Calhoun's (John Cusack) weight appears to fluctuate considerably from scene to scene.
    • Citações

      Mayor John Pappas: I was warned not to come here. I was warned. They warned me, "Don't stand behind that coffin." But why should I heed such a warning, when a heartbeat is silent and a child lies dead? "Don't stand behind" this coffin. That boy was as pure and as innocent as the driven snow. But I must stand here, because I have not given you what you should have. Until we can walk abroad and recreate ourselves; until we can stroll along the streets like boulevards; congregate in parks free from fear, our families mingling, our children laughing, our hearts joined - until that day we have no city. You can label me a failure until that day. The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said, "All things good on this Earth flow into the City, because of the City's greatness." Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again? Now, I put that question to James Bone, and there's only silence. Yet could not something pass from this sweet youth to me? Could he not empower me to find in myself the strength to have the knowledge to summon up the courage to accomplish this seemingly insurmountable task of making a city livable? Just livable. There was a palace that was a city. It was a PALACE! It was a PALACE and it CAN BE A PALACE AGAIN! A PALACE, in which there is no king or queen, or dukes or earls or princes, but subjects all: subjects beholden to each other, to make a better place to live. Is that too much to ask?

      Audience: No!

      Mayor John Pappas: Are we asking too much for this?

      Audience: No!

      Mayor John Pappas: Is it beyond our reach?

      Some Audience Members: No!

      Mayor John Pappas: Because if it is, then we are nothing but sheep being herded to the final SLAUGHTERHOUSE! I will not go down, THAT WAY!

      [the audience begins shouting approval]

      Mayor John Pappas: I choose to FIGHT BACK! I choose to RISE, not fall! I choose to LIVE, not die! And I know, I know that what's within me is also WITHIN YOU.

      Audience Member: Amen!

      Mayor John Pappas: That's why I ask you now to join me. Join me, RISE UP with me, RISE UP on the wings of this slain angel.

      [Audience members begin shouting "Yes" at every pause]

      Mayor John Pappas: We'll rebuild on the soul of this little warrior. We will pick up his standard and RAISE it high! Carry it forward until THIS CITY - YOUR CITY - OUR CITY - HIS CITY - IS A PALACE OF GOD! IS A PALACE OF GOD! I am with you, little James. I am you.

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    • Trilhas sonoras
      A Wonderful Guy
      Music by Richard Rodgers

      Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 3 de maio de 1996 (Brasil)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • Escalão
    • Locações de filme
      • Teaneck, Nova Jersey, EUA(city hall interiors)
    • Empresa de produção
      • Castle Rock Entertainment
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 40.000.000 (estimativa)
    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 20.340.204
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 6.950.794
      • 18 de fev. de 1996
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 20.340.204
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      1 hora 51 minutos
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