City Hall1996
Stars: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 111 minutes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 111 minutes
This complex 1996 drama directed by Harold Becker (Sea of Love) attempts to explore big-city corruption and the flexibility of what's right and wrong in the political arena. John Cusack (Say Anything) plays the senior aide to mayor John Pappas (Al P… more »
Mayor John Pappas:
"Distance"! Distance is something you do to your enemies. It's a thing of the nineties, to make friends extinct. Distance... is the absence of menschkeit!
Kevin Calhoun:
Translate that for me.
Mayor John Pappas:
You don't know what menschkeit means?
Kevin Calhoun:
No, I don't.
Mayor John Pappas:
Menschkeit, you know... something between men... it's about honor, and character... untranslatable. That's why it's Yiddish.
Kevin Calhoun:
I didn't know you'd taken up the language.
Mayor John Pappas:
Abe laid it on me.
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