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One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.
One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.
Action, Drama, Thriller - 1997
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6.3
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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.
Director:
,
Costa-Gavras
Cast:
,
Dustin Hoffman
,
Bill Nunn
,
William Atherton
,
John Travolta
,
Robert Prosky
,
Blythe Danner
,
Ted Levine
,
Mia Kirshner
,
Alan Alda
,
Milton Davis Jr.

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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
114 min
Release date:
7 Nov 1997
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$50,000,000
Revenue:
$10,541,523
Awards:
1 nomination

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
A wanna-be event movie that merely reinvents the wheel.
– Mike Clark,
USA Today,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
This simplistic and obvious expose about the manipulative power of the news media (lazily acted by Travoilta and Hoffman) is so familiar that it's not going to upset or provoke anyone.
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
21 Aug 2006
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