Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta team with award-winning filmmaker Costa Gavras
(Z, Missing) in a fierce tale of ratings-driven tv news gone mad.
Travolta is Sam, a misguided museum guard who loses his job, then tries to get it back at gunpoint. Hoffman is Max, a local tv reporter taken hostage with schoolchildren when Sam locks down the museum. It's a desperate move for Sam, a career move for Max. He's on the inside of a live exclusive. now he must give Sam's story a … mehrheroic spin, keep a cynical network anchor at bay and above all, keep America watching. And as Max pulls the strings, the stakes grow higher, darker, madder. weniger