City Hall 1996 123movies

Watch: City Hall 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and mob family member who had previously been supiciously given probabtion, only to break its terms. New York’s Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun starts digging for information..
Plot: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 20,980
	56% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 212 Popularity: 12.191 | TMDB

Reviews:

Saw this one maybe 20 years ago and for whatever reason had a hankering to check it out again. Not great or ambitious as it sounds and pacing was a bit off, but in general found it engaging and had solid performances. I do wonder how much better it could have been under someone like Scorsese. **3.5/5**

Being a huge fan of Al Pacino (from the likes of ‘Heat’, the ‘Godfather’ movies, and ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ especially) and having had a huge crush on Bridget Fonda (‘Single White Female’, anyone?) back in the day (Peter Fonda’s famous daughter was named 85th sexiest star in film history, and Mrs. Danny Elfman hasn’t been involved in film, unfortunately, since 2002), I was hugely disappointed in this film, especially since I had loved director Harold Becker’s previous ‘Sea of Love’, which also starred Pacino. The first half was decent and involving, but it kind of slid off the rails, interest-wise for me, the rest of the way and got too talky and uninspired.

I don’t really know if the problem was with the script or its direction. I know I’m not the greatest John Cusack fan in the world (I find he’s much better in comedy, like his sister Joan), but he had pretty good co-stars, whose talents were basically wasted, in Martin Landau, Anthony Franciosa and Danny Aiello (these guys were BORN for these roles and films, so on paper, this should have really worked out well). I had always wondered why this film had bombed so miserably, and now I know why. In cases like this, more should have been done to alter the story arc, just some basic tweaks, to make it more suspenseful and/or (though I usually balk at such ‘Hollywood’ tendencies) some romantic tension (a beauty such as Fonda’s was misused–they may as well have hired someone else). All in all, a wasted opportunity that’s worth a look if you like dramas about corruption–just don’t go in with big expectations, and don’t bother with a rewatch.

Politics in The Big Apple
Being a transplanted New Yorker, I might be more critical than most in watching City Hall. But I have to say that before even getting to the story itself I was captivated by the location shooting and the political atmosphere of New York City that Director Harold Becker created.

For example there’s a reference to Woerner’s Restaurant in Brooklyn where political boss Frank Anselmo likes to eat. There is or was a Woerner’s Restaurant on Remsen Street in downtown Brooklyn when I lived in New York back in 1996. It was in fact particularly favored by political people in the Borough though they did have a couple of other hangouts.

No surprise because the script was co-authored by Nicholas Pileggi who still writes both political and organized crime stories. He knows the atmosphere quite well and he sure knows how those two worlds cross as they do in this film.

A detective played by Nestor Serrano goes for an unofficial meeting with a relative of mob boss Anthony Franciosa and things erupt and three people wind up dead, including an innocent 6 year old boy whose father was walking him to school. The story mushrooms and at the end it’s reached inside City Hall itself.

Al Pacino plays Mayor John Pappas and John Cusack is his Deputy Mayor a transplanted Louisianan, a state which has a tradition of genteel corruption itself. He’s the outsider here and in trying to do damage control, Cusack finds more than he bargained for,

Danny Aiello plays Brooklyn political boss Frank Anselmo and for those of you not from New York, his character is based on the late Borough President of Queens Donald Manes who was also brought down by scandal. He’s very much the kind of Brooklyn politician I knew back in the day whose friendship with organized crime and favors done for them, do Aiello in.

City Hall was the farewell performance on film for Anthony Franciosa, one of the most underrated and under-appreciated talents ever on the screen. No one watches anyone else whenever he’s on.

Al Pacino’s best moment is when at the funeral of the young child killed, he takes over the proceedings and turns it into a political triumph for himself. His is a complex part, he’s a decent enough man, but one caught up in the corruption it takes to rise in a place like New York.

For those who want to know about political life in the Big Apple, City Hall is highly recommended.

Excellent acting and a wonderfully quiet script
Excellent political thriller, played much quieter and slower than other, higher ranking films in this genre. When people talk about Pacino and Cusack how do they manage to skip over these amazing career topping performances? A story of friendships, father-son relationships, corruption and deceit. The two actors gel amazingly well together, and the supports from Aiello and Fonda are equally as impressive, although Aiello is brilliant, especially when the papers run to press. Instead of focussing on an over complex corruption scandal, it creates wonderful characters who show the human side of failure an political bribery, The final scenes with each of the main characters are wonderfully written and acted.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Harold Becker
Writer Ken Lipper, Paul Schrader, Nicholas Pileggi
Actors Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color) (prints)
Film Length 2,941 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm