DROP DEAD CITY
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Like a desperate debtor on the run from angry creditors, the city of New York in 1975 was facing down the prospect of total bankruptcy. Essential workers were laid off in droves, garbage piled high in the potholed streets while protests erupted, and the comptroller was compelled to announce that the city appeared to keep no books. Mayor Abe Breame, President Gerald Ford and a host of experts and scoundrels are the key players in this thrilling cliff-hanger tale of political hijinks and financial derring-do studded with NYC-style black humor as the crown jewel of American cities attempts to save itself from the unthinkable, complete financial ruin.
“Tells an enormously complex story of financial fine points and political maneuvering… with a deft touch and a brisk sense of wonder.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“What New York’s fiscal crisis revealed, for maybe the first time, was a crack in the liberal dream.”—Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Year: 2024
Runtime: 108 minutes
Language: English
Country: USA
Genre: Documentary, History, Politics
Director: Michael Yohatyn and Peter Yost
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