Edmond (2005)

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(48%)

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
Director:	Stuart Gordon
Studio:	TARTAN FILMS
Run time:	82 mins
Genres:	Drama \| Thriller
Languages:	English
Released:	November 26, 2007
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A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) lurching into New York City's hellish underworld.

Rating of 1 stars out of 5
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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...

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27 out of 33 people found the following review helpful:

Edmond

SAI81 from from Tonbridge, 9th September, 2007

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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26 out of 33 people found the following review helpful:

Movie of the year!!!

Colin Fowler from ENGLAND ,Romford, 4th November, 2006

A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: 'You are not where you belong,' she tells him. Troubled by the answer from the fortune teller , that evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, he gets mugged , a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong? This movie is very interesting , it keeps you watching and waiting to see what will happen in 1 day in the life of EDMOND . This movie is very similar to 'FALLING DOWN' with Micheal Douglas.

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16 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Awful, The Worst Film Iv Rented From This Site

NativityInBlack from , 16th December, 2007

Dont be fooled by the cover - at no point does the film go black and white or Macey hold a gun or anything that might make it stylistic and slick....despite a decent cast (obviously Macey being the high point) this film suffers from an absolutly stagnent and disjointed, horrible script which leaves the acters with a hell of a lot to do. the film comes off as boring, pretentious and pointless - it tries soooo hard to be quirkey that it actually takes away from the unique narrative structure and leaves you wondering just what is happening and for what reasons. Unfortunatly this feeling doesnt last long as they were the last feelings of interest i had towards the film before i subsided into complete indifference. Watched it to the end to see if somthing would pull it all together, wish i'd just turned it off after 50 minutes... AVOID THIS FILM, ITS REALLY REALLY POOR, any number of cult flms are instantly more worthy of your time than this crap!!!

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