TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gavras,Costa
TI  - Mad City
AV  - VCD 01 G247
PY  - 1997///
PB  - Warner Bros
KW  - Drama
KW  - Action
N2  - A freeway pursuit.  A domestic spat gone over the edge.  You've watching it live at home, news as it happens.  But wait a minute.  Is the reporter on your TV screen shaping the story, extending its life, making it happen?  Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta team with award-winning filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing) in a fierce tale of ratings-driven TV news gone mad.  Travolta is Sam, a misguided museum guard who loses  his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint.  Hoffman is Max, a local TV reporter taken hostage with a group of schoolchildren when Sam locks down the museum.  It's a desperate move for Sam, a career move for Max.  He's on the inside of a live exclusive.  Now all he has to do is give Sam's story a heroic spin, Keep a headline-grabbing network anchor at bay and above all. keep America watching.  And as Max pulls the strings even tighter, the stakes grow higher, darker, madder
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