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FROM JOHN SAYLES, one of the essential, iconoclastic voices of American independent cinema, comes SILVER CITY, a film that is equal parts scathing political lampoon and sun-drenched neo-noir detective story. Inspired by the upcoming US presidential election, SILVER CITY follows the far-from-perfect political campaign of Senator Pilager (Chris Cooper). Pilager is a nervous, inarticulate and grammatically challenged candidate for state governor, pushed into the race by his domineering father, a venerable Senator. When Pilager stumbles across a corpse, it threatens to ruin his entire campaign. Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), Pilager’s ferocious campaign manager, is uncertain whether this is an accident or an especially grisly prank meant to derail the Pilager campaign. Whatever it is, Raven is determined to get to the bottom of it, and hires Danny O’Brien (Danny Huston), a formerly idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective, to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family’s enemies. In the tradition of the great film noirs, from The Maltese Falcon to Chinatown, Danny’s investigation inexorably 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. With pitch-perfect dialogue, unerring sense of place, and a slashing satiric strain, SILVER CITY offers John Sayles’ timely and toxic look at the state of the union on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election and features a top notch Hollywood cast.

“A rich, funny insightful social satire...ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I’VE
SEEN IN A LONG TIME!” Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper