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Mad City
1997
· Movie
· 114 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Every rating
30–79
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 30, highest is Metacritic users on 79. Critics average 38, everyone else 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Costa-Gavras
- Writers
- Eric Williams, Tom Matthews
- Released
- 10 October 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $10.5M
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