City Hall

“It started with a shootout on a rainswept street and ended in a scandal that shattered New York.”

Mayor John Pappas (Al Pacino) is a New York politician who knows everyone in the city and remembers who owes him. When a boy is accidentally shot, Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) starts asking questions that were never meant to reach this far. Harold Becker fills the film with the procedural detail of offices, hearings and hallway conversations, and lets the investigation widen one document at a time.