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Silver City (2004)
Director: John Sayles
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Once again, sociopolitical shenanigans are filmmaker John Sayles's topic du jour, when a reporter starts snooping around after a corpse is found to be loosely connected to a cover-up involving a gubernatorial candidate. Cooper's performance as the befuddled politician is a virtuoso take on fumbling Dubya-style inarticulacy, but coming after the scalpel-sharp social surgery of Sunshine State, Sayles's latest satirical swipe is more like an unfocused exhalation of hot air than a comment on the cultural state of the nation. The vision and vitriol of the writer-director's best work percolates randomly throughout, but Silver City just feels like a mother lode of recycled rage.Author: DF
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Cast & crew
Director: John Sayles
Producer: Maggie Renzi
Cast: Maria Bello, Thora Birch, David Clennon, Chris Cooper, Alma Delfina, Richard Dreyfuss, Miguel Ferrer, James Gammon, Daryl Hannah, Danny Huston, Kris Kristofferson, Tim Roth, Michael Murphy, Mary Kay Place full cast
Duration: 129 mins
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