Mad City
One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.
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
- Worldwide
- $11M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Mad City returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $50M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $11M
- Release date
- Oct 10, 1997
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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