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
Mad City
One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.
1997 · 1h 54m · PG-13
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Costa-Gavras
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Mad City
Overview
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 and cast
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30%
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Rotten
A wanna-be event movie that merely reinvents the wheel.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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