- published: 27 Feb 2008
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City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker, starring Al Pacino, John Cusack, and Bridget Fonda.
This was Becker's second collaboration with Pacino, having directed him in Sea of Love (1989).
John Pappas is the mayor of New York City 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 sending 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."
Keywords: airplane, airport, automated-teller-machine, award-ceremony, bag-of-money, bag-over-head, bare-chested-male, beating, begins-with-narration, bicycleThe city hall in my mind, met last night
Rumors of reelection started to fly
It's my funeral today, my funeral today
I laid it down Underneath the sound
It's my principle concern, my principle concern is what you say
But I wanted it this way.
Cause I'm throwin down without a fight
You're more than welcome to look around
Consult your checklist go underground
I'll claim a stake here inside the frame
But I'm going under another way
I won't return after today
So I'm at liberty to say what's on my mind
And it some I like
You can't watch me, you can't make me like before
When I was yours when all I wanted was the door
So I'm throwin down without a fight
You're more than welcome to look around
Consult your checklist go underground
I'll claim a stake here inside the frame
But I'm going under another way
Decision on the dock head
Make up your mind and if you get consensus
Drop me a line
The city hall in my mind, got together last night