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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- John TravoltaSam Baily
- Dustin HoffmanMax Brackett
- Mia KirshnerLaurie Callahan
- Alan AldaKevin Hollander
- Robert ProskyLou Potts
- Blythe DannerMrs. Banks
- William AthertonDohlen
- Ted LevineLemke
- Milton Davis Jr.The Kids
- Bill NunnCliff Williams
Crew
- Costa-GavrasDirector
- Tom MatthewsScreenplay
- Patrick BlossierDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Françoise BonnotEditor
- Arnold KopelsonProducer
- Anne KopelsonProducer
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