Broken City (2013)

Directed by

Allen Hughes

Genre

drama film, crime film, neo-noir, political thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1,593 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private investigator is hired by New York's mayor to tail the mayor's wife. The job pulls him into a web of political corruption and betrayal.

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What happens

Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. Mark Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator and Russell Crowe as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife. It is supported by Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler, Natalie Martinez, and Jeffrey Wright. This is Hughes' first solo feature film directing effort; in previous productions he collaborated with his twin brother Albert. Under a partnership between Emmett/Furla Films and Regency Enterprises, he began production in 2011 in New York City and Louisiana. Broken City was released in theaters on January 18, 2013. It received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing only $35 million against its $35–57 million production budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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