Veteran documentary cinematographer Kevin Keating's directing debut is a scathing chronicle of Rudy Giuliani's two-term tenure as the 107th mayor of New York City and his post-9/11 reinvention as "America's mayor." Originally conceived as a one-hour indictment of Giuliani's record on First Amendment issues, Keating's five-years-in-the-making film begins with
Village Voice editor Wayne Barrett's guided tour through the dark side of Giuliani's carefully spun family history: He was born in 1944 in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Pig Town"; his father, Harold, did time in Sing Sing, and his Uncle Leo and cousin Lewis D'Avanzo both had repeated run...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
130 mins