In the movie Broken City, an ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City’s mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal.
In the movie Broken City, Mark Wahlberg plays an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (Russell Crowe) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor’s wife’s cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor’s business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the mayor dealing himself choice city-owned properties.
The Hughes Brothers, responsible for cult-classics Menace II Society and From Hell, have broken up. This movie is directed by one of the Hughes Brothers, Allen, and was a huge box office bomb.