Synopsis
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers encompassing his long-suppressed rage, until Edmond explodes in violence.
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Cast
- William H. MacyEdmond
- Joe MantegnaMan in Bar
- Denise RichardsB-Girl
- Mena SuvariWhore
- Bokeem WoodbinePrisoner
- Julia StilesGlenna
- Vincent GuastaferroClub Manager
- Bai LingPeep Show Girl
- Debi MazarMatron
- Jeffrey CombsDesk Clerk
Recommandations
- 80
Salon
It's hilarious, and contains some of Mamet's best dialogue. And that somehow, by making a racist, murderous, Everycreep his protagonist, Mamet is able to produce some of his most penetrating psychological and spiritual insights. - 70
The New York Times
Mr. Macy, a master at playing sticks of human dynamite in mild-mannered camouflage, gives the nerviest screen performance of his career. - 63
New York Post
It may be too bleak for most. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Written in the aftermath of a bitter divorce, Mamet's paranoid rant -- an explosion of middle-aged, white-collar, white-men's rage at losing ground to everyone, from women, hustlers, African Americans and homosexuals to the younger generation nipping at their heels -- is as bilious as ever, but time has overtaken and defanged it. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America’s best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
For hard-core David Mamet fans only...Edmond serves to remind you how artificial the dialogue and dramaturgy truly was in early Mamet. - 50
Variety
Despite agreeably short running time and committed performances, Edmond is rendered inert by its stagy atmosphere and failure to fully mine the depths of its protagonist's complex psyche. - 50
Village Voice
As the full-length sorta-satire it has become, Edmond is all sizzle and little meat, a veritable tangent act dropped from "Glengarry Glen Ross" because it was several marks too silly.
