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Mad city [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, c1998.Description: 1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0790734737 :
Subject(s): Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner, Ted Levine, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner.Summary: Sam is a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Max is a local TV reporter taken hostage with 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 he must give Sam's story a heroic spin, keep a cynical network anchor at bay and above all, keep America watching. And as Max pulls the strings, the stakes grow higher, darker, madder.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD MAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000511679

Originally released as a motion picture.

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Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner, Ted Levine, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner.

Sam is a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Max is a local TV reporter taken hostage with 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 he must give Sam's story a heroic spin, keep a cynical network anchor at bay and above all, keep America watching. And as Max pulls the strings, the stakes grow higher, darker, madder.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Rated PG-13.

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