FILM · 2013 · USA

Broken City

10 archived facts · 3 topics · 1 source · Last reviewed Oct 2026

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1. #001

   Producer Mark Wahlberg offered the role of Billy Taggart to Michael Fassbender, but when Fassbender turned it down, Wahlberg took the part himself.

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2. #002

   The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2008 Black List, the annual list of the year's most liked unproduced screenplays.

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3. #003

   This was Natalie Martinez's first nude scene in her career.

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4. #004

   Two Oscar winners appear in this film: Russell Crowe, who won for Gladiator (2000), and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who won for Chicago (2002). In terms of Oscar nominations, Mark Wahlberg has been nominated twice, once for supporting actor for The Departed (2006) and once as a producer of The Fighter (2010). Russell Crowe received additional acting nominations for The Insider (1999) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).

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5. #005

   Mark Wahlberg plays Billy Taggart, a nod to the key police roles of Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and Beverly Hills Cop II (1987).

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6. #006

   In this film, Russell Crowe plays a powerful politician/mayor secretly connected to the suspicious death of his political rival's deputy. In State of Play (2009), he plays a veteran journalist investigating his friend, a powerful politician, and the friend's connection to the suspicious death of a congressional aide.

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7. #007

   Katy (Alona Tal) plays the assistant to a private detective. Tal appeared in the series Veronica Mars (2004), which centered on a high school student who is a private detective.

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8. #008

   Gregory Jbarra has a small role as a New York reporter who interviews the mayor (Russell Crowe). Jbarra also appears as a deputy police commissioner on the New York City series "Blue Bloods." On "Blue Bloods," Jbarra acts alongside Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Wahlberg's brother.

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9. #009

   Mark Wahlberg plays a former police officer who becomes a private detective. Seven years later, Wahlberg would again play a big-city cop turned private detective in the 2020 film "Spencer Confidential."

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10. #010

    Around the 28th minute, Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) and Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) discuss her attending Hunter College. Alona Tal played a Hunter on the series Supernatural.

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