Silver City (2004)

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DVD, 2h 8min
Puntuación: 6.1
Idiomas: English, Spanish
País: USA
Director: John Sayles
Escritor: John Sayles
Música: Mason Daring

Resumen de la trama

Historia política ambientada en una pequeña localidad de Colorado durante la campaña de las elecciones para gobernador. Un inesperado cadáver en el lago desvelará las corrupciones y miserias de la vida política estadounidense.

Sinopsis ampliada

Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven, hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers. Written by Sujit R. Varma