Movies
April, 1996
Al Pacino is at the top of his game in City Hall (Columbia) as an ambitious, manipulative New York mayor named John Pappas. John Cusack is also strong as the mayor's deputy, an idealistic man from Louisiana who has a lot to learn about the devious ways of the movers and shakers he looks to as role models. The plot spins around the death of a child killed in a street shoot-out, and a subsequent official cover-up that raises sticky questions about ethics, cronyism and courtroom justice. Up to thei...