Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. The film was directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator, and Crowe stars as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife.
The film is Hughes' first solo feature film directing effort; he has collaborated with his twin brother Albert in previous films. Allen met Tucker in 2010 and learned about Tucker's spec script, which had languished in development hell since Mandate Pictures attempted to produce a film in 2008. Under a partnership between Emmett/Furla Films and Regency Enterprises, Hughes began production in 2011 in New York City and Louisiana. The film was released in theaters on January 18, 2013.
Produced by: Randall Emmett, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Arnon Milchan, Teddy Schwarzman, Allen Hughes, Remington Chase
Written by: Brian Tucker
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright, Barry Pepper
Music by: Atticus Ross, Claudia Sarne, Leo Ross
Cinematography: Ben Seresin
Editing by: Cindy Mollo
Studio: Regency Enterprises, Emmett/Furla Films
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release date(s): January 18, 2013
Running time: 108 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $35 million
Box office: $25,494,457
Story
NYPD detective Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) is arrested for the murder of Mikey Tavarez, who raped and murdered the sixteen-year-old sister of Taggart's girlfriend Natalie Barrow (Natalie Martinez). His friend, Captain Carl Fairbanks (Jeffrey Wright) asks Mayor Nicholas Hostetler (Russell Crowe) for help, and Hostetler eliminates the evidence against Taggart. Tavarez's death is ruled as self-defense, and Taggart is forced to leave the police.
Seven years later, Taggart is a private detective on the verge of bankruptcy when he's hired by Hostetler to find out who his wife Cathleen Hostetler (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is having an affair with. Helped by his assistant, Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal), Taggart learns that Cathleen is seeing Paul Andrews (Kyle Chandler), the campaign manager of Hostetler's rival in the upcoming elections, Jack Valliant (Barry Pepper).
Taggart attends a fundraiser for Hostetler's campaign, where Cathleen reveals that she knows Taggart is following her, and advises him not to become involved with Hostetler. However, Hostetler gets the envelope with the pictures that Taggart has taken of Cathleen meeting with Andrews, and Andrews is found dead shortly afterwards.
Fairbanks interrogates Taggart, who admits he had been hired by Hostetler. They talk with Valliant, who reveals that Andrews was meeting Todd Lancaster (James Ransone), son of Hostetler's associate, contractor Sam Lancaster (Griffin Dunne). Taggart then meets with Cathleen, who reveals that Andrews actually provided her with information about Hostetler's plans for the Bolton Village Housing Project. Hostetler wanted to find out Cathleen's source, and manipulated Taggart to lead him to discover who it was.
Taggart investigates Sam Lancaster's construction business, and learns that Hostetler has sold the Bolton Village in order to have it demolished and replaced by office buildings, leaving hundreds of impoverished people homeless for his own profit. However, he is attacked by Hostetler's men, who destroy the evidence he has acquired. Taggart then locates Todd Lancaster and interrogates him. Todd reveals that he disagreed with Hostetler's plans and intended to give Andrews the demolition contract as evidence against Hostetler the night he was murdered. He gives it to Taggart instead, and Taggart confronts Hostetler, who reveals that he has the evidence that Taggart planned to murder Tavarez, and will leak it to the press if Taggart pursues him further.
Taggart admits his crimes to Fairbanks and gives him the demolition contract. Fairbanks has Hostetler arrested and Valliant is elected mayor, preventing the demolition of the Bolton Village. Hostetler exposes Taggart's crimes, and Taggart accepts to be arrested for the benefit of the poor, including Natalie's family. He says his goodbyes to Katy and reminds her that they'll return to business once he's released from prison.
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