* Amazon are not included in Price Watch

Mad City DVD

| DVD

Mad City is an earnest effort at media criticism that's never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story. What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling... as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoon or Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com [show more]

Read More

buy new from £999,999.00 | RRP: £13.99
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.
Searching retailers...
  • DVD Details
  • Reviews (0)
  • Price History
  • Watch Trailer
Released
22 April 2002
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
Warner Home Video 
Classification
Runtime
110 minutes 
Features
Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen 
Barcode
7321900154338 
  • Title not yet reviewed...

  • Please review this title

    We will publish your review of Mad City [1998] on DVD within a few days as long as it meets our guidelines.
    None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

    Thank you - we will review and publish your review shortly.

More Titles Starring John Travolta

More Titles Starring Dustin Hoffman

More Titles Starring Alan Alda

More Titles Starring Mia Kirshner

More Titles Starring Robert Prosky

More Titles Starring Blythe Danner

More Titles Starring William Atherton

More Titles Starring Ted Levine

More Titles Starring Tammy Lauren

More Titles Starring Raymond J. Barry

More Titles Starring Lucinda Jenney