Broken City Page #3

Synopsis: In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven years later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investig
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Allen Hughes
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
R
Year:
2013
109 min
$19,600,000
Website
829 Views


No. You will find that they were here.

We have to figure out who the

this number and have our man.

- Welcome to RooseVeldt, Ms.

- Thanks.

I have it!

- Really?

- That's right.

- And it's warm, Billy.

- Hot how?

Wonderful good.

- Where do you teach that?

- I've been to Hunter, a**hole.

- A thousand pardons!

- It is a sophisticated place.

He had good friends read and drank wine.

Really? He's old for this?

You'd be surprised how

that I can do at my age.

- Take it easy, okay?

- For example:

I have old enough to vote,

and in my mind,

I discovered that the administrator

Jack Valliant campaign ...

with the name of Paul Andrews ...

'Re screwing mayor's wife.

- Nonsense!

- And he drives a Lexus.

- This is great.

- It's orgasmic.

- Hunter learned this too?

- I do not want to know.

The mayor is not going to like anything.

What cold b*tch!

My return ticket.

Thank you!

- What do you have against the guy?

- The numbers are stable.

- Stable?

- Yes

What do you mean?

Stable until a

exchange. Right?

In what direction?

With news, Sam.

Always with the news.

Really?

- You're slow, Nick.

- Is it?

Watch your ass I'll take care of mine.

I'm beginning to doubt it.

It's like Griffith and Paret.

"1962, Emile Griffith and

Benny Paret. "Do you remember?

Yes.

So the guy is

'm Paret and Griffith.

I mean you're the fagot.

I am the Griffith's

removal of the tail.

I preserve, I think

he who is winning.

Here comes Round 12. Do you remember?

Yes.

- The swipe.

- F*** you!

Therefore, Nick.

I have half a million

involved in his campaign.

And what I love most is the result.

So why do not you tell me

How you going to win this thing?

We ship all rumors

newspapers and radio

- City tonight.

- Vai necklace?

No, it's all a lie.

But going to cause a stir.

This will cause the other side

think there is anyone in the debate

can kill it.

With luck, Nick. Hopefully.

THE RACE FOR MAYOR IS BY A THREAD!

Know who to vote for?

No, I think I will not vote.

My candidate's

presidency was terrible.

The president does not determine the

quality of life in Brooklyn.

- How do you know I'm from Brooklyn?

- You said.

- I'm involved in this business.

- Are you a private detective?

No. .. private detective? No.

There is still this function?

- What are you doing?

- I'm in politics.

- What do you recommend?

- The new candidate.

What is it? He is very clean.

New York is a place

big and messy.

- What needs to be?

- No, could be better, of course.

But I had good years with Hostetler.

- What do you do then?

- Work on sanitation.

It is very clean for

one man's junk.

I do it to impress women.

There is always a woman.

- Mora in 31?

- Has 15 years.

- In New York?

- Exactly.

So why do

would a man accused

not a priority for New York?

Why not have your

own house in the city?

Forget that no NBA Barney and Gordon

use this train of sh*t.

Have a, the city and the island.

So where is yours?

I'm just saying.

So you have a house here?

No.

Do not get me wrong, I like

the water, sand and grass, but no.

I think it best to leave the

damn city is back to her.

Almost everything and almost everyone

I love that city are.

Next stop Montauk. / i

All passengers must

exit the train in Montauk / i

keep your belongings with you. / i

It was a pleasure talking to you.

Anytime.

Sh*t.

- Taggert Agency.

- You're stuck on the phone?

No, I'm trying to

save their business.

I do not say this often,

but you were right.

- Really?

- The mayor's wife

is sex with

campaign manager.

- Told you.

- You call, have pictures.

- Okay.

- E vacate the phone.

Ryan would not be in this

film is not for you.

So thank you. It was

very nice of you.

This guy here, Here

we have a real civil.

So here we go. Di

what you do.

I do not do anything important. Take

photography is pretty boring.

Damn, not paparazzi, right?

No, actually, I

stay real people.

No, he's a detective

private, was a policeman.

Do not tell me! Really?

That's how they met?

He promised not fine if you go with?

- Yes, something like that.

- Tell the details.

Come on, Billy. Tell the details.

As a guy like you get to

- With a Girl Scout Natalie?

- A guy like me?

I can not imagine in the theater.

This party is for you.

Let's talk about the movie

you would like to know.

Nobody leaves this table without

sing the song of blues, Billy.

Natalie, you have to

Here take the front,

This lovely boy called?

Billy was a family friend.

So are the same neighborhood, or?

He worked in the same neighborhood.

She fell in love for the

District police.

What is it?

Just a Puerto Rican pro

that nobody cared. And

Billy was fine with us.

Barrow, this is Puerto Rico?

- It's actually Barea.

- Okay, Natalie Barea.

Natalie.

Sounds good.

It changed its name to be more tolerant?

No. ..

changed because I was going to auditions.

And the first question that we

the mouth of the Director

was whether I was a relative Yesenia Barea.

- Who is?

- My sister.

- She is famous?

- Yes

His face daily for 7 years.

- Natalie, please do not.

- A 16 year old girl ...

raped and killed the blows

and abandoned in an apartment Bolton Village.

Billy was well with

we. It was a tough and ...

did improve.

It is, of course, because

Like accuse anyone

not according to the class

rich class conflict

when really knows what

which is a class conflict.

You steal people's homes

Bolton working Village

and deliver an investment bank.

That, sir, is a true

the class struggle.

Maybe you grew up in Connecticut,

$ 3 billion is

considered a slice.

But here in New York 3000000000

is considered a high amount.

They can solve many problems.

With all due respect,

not solve the problems

- Yielding to billionaires.

- I bow to the billionaires

but you know what? You come to

From a long list of them.

And, by the way. How will the reform

noble residence in April

million in Brooklyn Heights?

If my house too? Keep it.

The mortgage is upside down under

as the rest of the city.

Because the system is

manipulated by people like you.

- This is good.

- Good?

I like that. Do it for yourself.

Very well.

We need that time.

You know that, Senator ...

You're no Jack Kennedy

it's time to talk about Bolton Village.

The timing is not good.

Hold your position, account

the difference between the two.

It is not clear enough,

Paul, has to be clear.

He has to attack me clearly.

I'm a rich guy

Connecticut, what the hell is?

He'll be unemployed

when it's Tuesday ...

- If you keep your positions.

- Damn it, I do not understand!

Paul, he is a cheater.

I have to be prepared

when he comes to me because

talking about my family,

throughout the rest of the money.

I have to take with him, saying:

You, sir, are a

cheat and a liar!

And if it is

challenge me to prove it ...

I quote that newspaper glorious

I said you gave me ...

- And start talking aloud.

- A break.

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