 | Movie title: Silver City Starring: Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth, Billy Zane (YES!), Thora Birch, Daryl Hannah Directed by: John Sayles
Written by: John Sayles
Genre: Dramedy
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 128 min
Imdb:
Rating: 2
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Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.
BY: Sujit R. Varma
This one really disappointed and i blame the trailer. the trailer sells the film as a comedy that paradies the rise of a bumbling politician (Bush). Turns out the movie is just boring, which is strange because so many good names were attached; Billy Zane anyone? I think it is supposed to be a dark comedy but it ends up being a black hole. all the humor falls flat amid the ends tediousness that permeates the whole film. upon looking through the credits i noticed that the writer director also edited the film, and that may be part of the problem. i just had really high hopes for this film, i thought is was going to be an intelligent parady and i just wanted to go to sleep. just don't bother with it.
