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Things Change Details

1988 Certificate TBC
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  • 50
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Gino, an elderly, gracious shoeshiner who bears an uncanny resemblance to a mob kingpin, agrees to take a three-year jail rap for him in return for a fishing boat and retiring to the "old country." But his life is turned upside down when his "guard" takes him on a last weekend fling and he's recognized as a mob chieftain and .. Read more

Starring Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna
Director David Mamet
Genres Drama

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Things Change

Gino, an elderly, gracious shoeshiner who bears an uncanny resemblance to a mob kingpin, agrees to take a three-year jail rap for him in return for a fishing boat and retiring to the "old country." But his life is turned upside down when his "guard" takes him on a last weekend fling and he's recognized as a mob chieftain and given royal treatment. But, of course, things change.

Starring Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna
Director David Mamet
Run time DVD: 1 hr 40 mins
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Drama
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1988
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (2) of Things Change

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  • Mamet's second film is not intellectually fast, nasty, and dazzling like House of Games, but more like a leisurely... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • 2 stars out of 4

    Gently comic anecdote, delicately played.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    A subtle gem

    Peter Sellers 'Being There' was critically acclaimed as an understated satire on how a cynical world misunderstands and manipulates innocence. For me 'Things Change' does the same with a much defter touch. Don Ameche and Joe Montana excel as the leads in this delightful comic drama of mistaken identity in mafia politics.

      • A customer from Malvern UK
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