City of Hope
- Director: John Sayles
- Writer: John Sayles
- Producer: Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi, John Sloss, Jo Throckmorton, Harold Welb
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"Welcome to the American city. You buy your way in. And you fight your way out. Who says it's a free country?"
City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the way of a major commercial development. Joe Rinaldi is the building contractor who owns the buildings, and is being pressured to torch them to permit the development to occur. His estranged son, Nick, soon becomes a pawn in the power politics of the city. Corrupt Mayor Baci and policeman O'Brien are determined to push the development, while idealistic city councilman Wynn soon finds himself torn between what he knows is right and what his black constituents want.
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Cast & Characters
Vincent Spano (as Nick Rinaldi)
Stephen Mendillo (as Yoyo)
Chris Cooper (as Riggs)
Tony Lo Bianco (as Joe Rinaldi)
Joe Morton (as Wynn)
Charlie Yanko (as Stavros)
Jace Alexander (as Bobby)
Todd Graff (as Zip)
Scott Tiler (as Vinnie)
John Sayles (as Carl)
Frankie Faison (as Levonne)
Gloria Foster (as Jeanette)
Tom Wright (as Malik)
Angela Bassett (as Reesha)
David Strathairn (as Asteroid)
Maggie Renzi (as Connie)
Marianne Leone (as Joann)
S.J. Lang (as Bauer)
Tony Denison (as Rizzo (as Anthony John Denison))
Kevin Tighe (as O'Brien)
Barbara Williams (as Angela)
Eileen Lynch (as Dawn)
Bob North (as District Attorney)
Michael Mantell (as Zimmer)
Randle Mell (as Simms)