City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. It stars Al Pacino, John Cusack and Bridget Fonda.
The plot follows the aftermath of the death of a boy caught in the crossfire of a shootout between a drug dealer and a detective.
According to the website BoxOfficeMojo.com, the film grossed an estimated $20 million in the U.S.
This was director Harold Becker's second collaboration with Al Pacino. Becker directed Pacino in Sea of Love released seven years earlier.
John Pappas is the mayor of New York and has far more grand ambitions, including the governor's office and the White House. His loyal deputy mayor is Kevin Calhoun, a young man from Louisiana who grew up loving politics.
One day, an off-duty police detective named Eddie Santos is ambushed by Tino Zapatti, a criminal with mob ties. They kill each other in a shootout with a stray bullet also causing the death of an innocent small boy named James Bone.
An investigation leads to a question as to why Judge Walter Stern, an old friend of the mayor's, had set Zapatti free on probation for a recent crime rather than send him to jail. Legal aid Marybeth Cogan, meanwhile, attempts to see that Santos' widow receives his full benefits, but there seems to be a conspiracy to paint the slain detective as less than honest.
Actors: Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Nonong Buencamino (composer), Vanessa R. Valdez (producer), Marizel V. Samson (producer), Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Tess V. Fuentes (producer), Carmi Raymundo (producer), Shamaine Buencamino (actress), Tirso Cruz III (actor), Noni Buencamino (actor), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Malou N. Santos (producer), Vilma Santos (actress), Marya Ignacio (editor), Olivia M. Lamasan (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Nonong Buencamino (composer), Vanessa R. Valdez (producer), Marizel V. Samson (producer), Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Tess V. Fuentes (producer), Carmi Raymundo (producer), Shamaine Buencamino (actress), Tirso Cruz III (actor), Noni Buencamino (actor), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Malou N. Santos (producer), Vilma Santos (actress), Marya Ignacio (editor), Olivia M. Lamasan (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Nonong Buencamino (composer), Vanessa R. Valdez (producer), Marizel V. Samson (producer), Olivia M. Lamasan (writer), Tess V. Fuentes (producer), Carmi Raymundo (producer), Shamaine Buencamino (actress), Tirso Cruz III (actor), Noni Buencamino (actor), Charo Santos-Concio (producer), Malou N. Santos (producer), Vilma Santos (actress), Marya Ignacio (editor), Olivia M. Lamasan (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Mary Steenburgen (actress), Mary Pat Gleason (actress), Eliza Dushku (actress), Tracey Walter (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Matt Winston (actor), Ted Danson (actor), Kirk Baily (actor), Greg Collins (actor), Danny DeVito (actor), Ernie Hudson (actor), Bill Pullman (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Claire Doré (miscellaneous crew), Mark Adler (composer),
Plot: Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge. In the words of Michel De Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher: "There is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead."
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