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Edmond
2005
A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) lurching into New York City's hellish underworld. Read more
| Starring | William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Bai Ling, Mena Suvari |
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| Director | Stuart Gordon |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Edmond
A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) lurching into New York City's hellish underworld.
| Starring | William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Bai Ling, Mena Suvari, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeffrey Combs, Dule Hill, Joe Mantegna, Denise Richards, Dylan Walsh, Russell Hornsby, Debi Mazar, Marcus Thomas, Jack Wallace, George Wendt, Lionel Smith |
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| Director | Stuart Gordon |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 22 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Nov 2007 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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The start of this grim fairy tale adapted by David Mamet from his own 1982 play is ominous in more ways than... read more on Time Out
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Edmond
David Mamet is a great writer, but even a great writer has his off days and watching Edmond is like watching Mamet vigorously scrape the bottom of the barrel. The script is a disaster, it's incredibly stagey in its tone; none of the characters talk, they soliliquise, taking forever to say something thuddingly obvious. The whole thing also feels disjointed because only Macy (who is in almost every frame of the picture) appears for more than 10 minutes of screentime and even the long, increasingly dark, night that we spend with Edmond as he becomes more and more unhinged never stops feeling like a bunch of scenes being acted (in Macy's case extremely well acted) at us.
The actors do, largely, make the best of it with Macy giving a tour de force performance that deserves a better movie to be in, Stiles showing that when you give her something to do in a picture she can act up a storm and Mrs Mamet Rebecca Pidgeon (who really ought to do more outside her husband's films) impressing in a couple of brief scenes.
Try as they might though they can't fashion a silk purse from this sow's ear. Gordon's direction is largely perfunctory, coming briefly alive in the violent sequences which are executed with the panache you'd expect from the director of Re-Animator but it all comes back to the screenplay which feels like nothing so much as a mirthless, nihilistic, riff on American Psycho. -
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OH EDMOND!
This is the thinking man's 'Falling Down' (with Michael Douglas - get it first as part of an interesting double header, if you haven't already seen it). I found it a little bizarre and, if I'm honest, may well have bailed out if it weren't for the ever excellent Macy.
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Edmond
- 03 Jul 2007
'You are not where you belong,' the fortune teller informs him. Edmond (William H Macy) knows this is the truth. He goes home and tells his wife it's over. 'You don't interest me spiritually or sexually,' he says. She shows him the door and he walks through it, out into the night. His first stop is a bar. 'A man has to get away from himself,' he says - or maybe it's the guy he's talking to. At any rate, on this they agree. The guy (Joe Mantegna) gives him a card for a sex club. 'I don't want... Read more
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