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Name: City Hall
Released: 1996-2-16
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, David Paymer

City Hall

UR
1h 51m
1996

60%

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Academy Award-winner Al Pacino stars as a New York City mayor whose office comes under fire when a shoot-out between a hero cop and a Mafia-connected drug dealer leaves a small child dead in the taut political thriller City Hall. A populist leader who has captured the hearts of the city and mastered the art of the political high-wire act, Mayor John Pappas harbors ambitions for the presidency. Masterminding his campaign, a brilliant young political strategist, Kevin Calhoun, serves as the mayor's idealistic deputy. Their ambitious plans begin to unravel when suspicious events surrounding the deadly shoot-out rock the foundations of city hall. Also starring Academy Award-winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Crimes and Misdemeanors), Bridget Fonda (Single White Female, Doc Hollywood) and Danny Aiello , this startling drama reveals the dirty little secrets of democracy and the pursuit of power at any price.

Director:

Harold Becker

Producer:

Edward R. Pressman, Ken Lipper, Charles Mulvehill, Harold Becker

Writer:

Ken Lipper, Paul Schrader, Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman

Cast:

Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, David Paymer, Martin Landau, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Schiff, Lindsay Duncan, Nestor Serrano, Mel Winkler, Lauren Vélez

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

60%

Critics Consensus: City Hall explores political corruption with commendable intelligence, but this web of scandal struggles to coalesce into satisfying drama.

Reviews

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David Nusair

...a decent-enough endeavor that often feels like it should be much, much better.

Director Harold Becker captures the political rhythms of the big city and keeps the rather complicated plot comprehensible. But audiences need to pay attention; this is not a by-the-numbers urban thriller.

Its chief pleasure is the acting of the big cast, notably Pacino. At 55, he has a haggard, life-wrestling beauty and a street eloquence that has more innocence than De Niro and more sincerity than Nicholson.