Mad City
“One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.”
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Studio
Arnold Kopelson Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How Mad City performed
Budget
$50.0M
Worldwide Gross
$10.5M
Gross Profit
−$39.5M
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Thriller) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Sam Baily
John Travolta
Sam Baily
Max Brackett
Dustin Hoffman
Max Brackett
Laurie Callahan
Mia Kirshner
Laurie Callahan
Kevin Hollander
Alan Alda
Kevin Hollander
Lou Potts
Robert Prosky
Lou Potts
Mrs. Banks
Blythe Danner
Mrs. Banks
Dohlen
William Atherton
Dohlen
Lemke
Ted Levine
Lemke
The Kids
Milton Davis Jr.
The Kids
Cliff Williams
Bill Nunn
Cliff Williams
Doctor
John Landis
Doctor
CTN Junior Executive
William O'Leary
CTN Junior Executive
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