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    Silver City


    MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2004 | Running Time: 133 minutes

    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

    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



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