Broken City (2013)

6.1R109 minDirector: Allen Hughes

2013 film by Allen Hughes

Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. Mark Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator and Russell Crowe as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife. It is supported by Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper, Kyle Chandler, Natalie Martinez, and Jeffrey Wright.

This is Hughes' first solo feature film directing effort; in previous productions he collaborated with his twin brother Albert. Under a partnership between Emmett/Furla Films and Regency Enterprises, he began production in 2011 in New York City and Louisiana.

Broken City was released in theaters on January 18, 2013. It received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing only $35 million against its $35–57 million production budget.

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Broken City (2013) — In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the suspected rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks make the important evidence vanish and the case against Billy is dismissed by the judge; however,
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