Movie·1997·114 min

Mad City

Name: Mad City
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Released: 1997-10-10
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky

Mad City streams in the US free with ads on YouTube Free, as of October 5, 2026.

One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle.

6.2 / 10 · TMDBTomatometer 30%Audience 43%Metacritic 45IMDb 6.3Letterboxd 3.0

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Thriller Drama

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.

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