Mad City

Mad City

One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.

PG-13 1997 · 114 min · ★ 6.2 · Thriller, Drama

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Directed by Costa-Gavras · Written by Tom Matthews

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