Broken City (film)

Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. Mark Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator and Russell Crowe as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife.

NYPD detective Billy Taggart Mark Wahlberg is arrested for the murder of Mikey Tavarez, who was believed to have raped and murdered sixteenyearold Yesenia Barea but walked on a technicality. Chief Carl Fairbanks Jeffrey Wright, goes to Mayor Nicholas Hostetler Russell Crowe with a witness and evidence. Hostetler buries the evidence, and a judge clears Taggart as having shot Tavarez in selfdefense. The mayor calls Taggart to his office for a private meeting and calls him a hero, but still forces him to leave the police.Seven years later, Taggart is living with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow Natalie Martinez, an aspiring actress. Taggarts private detective business is on the verge of bankruptcy when Mayor Hostetler hires him to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler Catherine ZetaJones, whom he thinks is having an affair. Helped by his assistant, Katy Bradshaw Alona Tal, Taggart learns that Cathleen is seeing Paul Andrews Kyle Chandler, the campaign manager of Hostetlers rival in the upcoming elections, Jack Valliant Barry Pepper. ........

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