Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad habit of mangling the English language and a decided ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2004 | Running Time: 133 minutes
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Silver City could be considered John Sayles' cross between All the President's Men and Chinatown. His hero is a rumpled journalist who digs deeper and deeper into a murder investigation and reveals a history that makes clear how and why a variety of political and personal forces are driving the dim-witted but television-friendly Richard "Dickie" Pilager (Chris Cooper doing modest, brilliant work) toward the Colorado governor's mansion. Sayles has envisioned a complex web of conspiracy and greed, ...more
- Danny Huston - Danny O'Brien
- Maria Bello - Nora Allardyce
- Billy Zane - Chandler Tyson
- Chris Cooper - Richard "Dickie" Pilager
- Richard Dreyfuss - Chuck Raven
- Daryl Hannah - Maddy Pilager
- Kris Kristofferson - Wes Benteen
- Mary Kay Place - Grace Seymour
- Miguel Ferrer - Cliff Castleton
- Thora Birch - Karen Cross
- Cheech Marin
- Michael Murphy - Sen. Jud Pilager
- David Clennon - Mort Seymour
- Ralph Waite - Casey Lyle
- John Sayles - Director
- Maggie Renzi - Producer
- John Sayles - Screenwriter
- Suzanne Ceresco - Associate Producer
- Ros Hubbard - Casting
- John Hubbard - Casting
- Lansing Parker - Co-producer
- Shay Cunliffe - Costume Designer
- John Powditch - First Assistant Director
- John Sayles - Editor
- Mason K. Daring - Composer (Music Score)
- Toby Corbett - Production Designer
- Chris Jones - Production Designer
- Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer











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