City Hall
City Hall is a 1996 American political thriller film directed by Harold Becker and starring Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda and Danny Aiello. The film is Becker's second collaboration with Pacino, having directed him in Sea of Love (1989). The film was released on February 16, 1996, and received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
New York City Mayor John Pappas makes a speech. His admiring deputy mayor Kevin Calhoun watches and narrates the scene. Meanwhile, NYPD Detective Eddie Santos and mob figure Tino Zapatti kill each other in a shootout on a Brooklyn street corner. A stray bullet from Zapatti's gun also kills a 6-year-old boy.
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| author | Bo Goldman Nicholas Pileggi Paul Schrader |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Harold Becker |
| editor | David Bretherton Robert C. Jones |
| genre | political thriller |
| keywords | bribe brooklyn city council deputy mayor deputy mayor of new york city detective's endowment association dirty cop imminent scandal internal affairs mayor of new york city mob boss new york city mayor new york city police department new york city's 6th city council district nypd police union political boss probation probation officer |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith |
| producer | Charles Mulvehill Edward R. Pressman Harold Becker Kenneth Lipper |
| productionCompany | Castle Rock Entertainment Columbia Pictures |
| publisher | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| recordedAt | New Jersey New York City |
| theme | political thriller |