Drop Dead City

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Drop Dead City

Apr 2025

1h 48m

Documentary

History

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12 Reviews

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NYC, 1975: the greatest, grittiest city on Earth is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground -- and a way out.

Chris Vognar

Boston Globe

Nov 20

The going can get wonky, but the drama and the stakes are palpable as powerful unions and city, state, and federal officials square off, blame each other, and try to find a solution.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

Apr 25

The crisis may have unfolded 50 years ago, but our interdependence is as important to remember now as it was then.

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Jason Bailey

RogerEbert.com

Apr 25

2.5/4

It’s a fine film, albeit one that nearly loses its credibility due to an unfortunate instance of undisclosed bias.

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Michael Greenberg

The New York Review of Books

Jun 10

Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost have assembled an absorbing documentary anatomizing the drama that ended with New York narrowly avoiding default.

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Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks

May 25

What we do have here is a lot (and I do mean a lot) of old white guys talking about economics and political bureaucracy. There is an infinitely more interesting movie buried in here.

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Joseph Neff

Spectrum Culture

May 23

An efficient examination of an oft-told story, Drop Dead City takes a documentary look at the financial crisis that nearly destroyed New York.

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NYC, 1975: the greatest, grittiest city on Earth is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground -- and a way out.

Director: Peter Yost, Michael Rohatyn
Producer: Peter Yost, Michael Rohatyn
Distributor: Fear City
Genre: Documentary, History
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 25, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 48m