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Edmond (2005)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 39

Despite an electrifying performance by William H. Macy, David Mamet's one-act morality play translates poorly into a film that is overburdened by dialogue.

Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 9

Despite an electrifying performance by William H. Macy, David Mamet's one-act morality play translates poorly into a film that is overburdened by dialogue.

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David Mamet wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his play about a man who suddenly stumbles into a new and dangerous life. Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) is on his way home from work one evening when he impulsively stops to have his fortune read by a woman who informs him, "You are not where you belong." When he does arrive home, Edmond soon falls into an argument with his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon), and he storms out into the city, where he stops at a bar for a few drinks. There, Edmond

R, 1 hr. 22 min.

Drama

Directed By: Stuart Gordon

In Theaters: Aug 31, 2005 Wide

On DVD: Oct 3, 2006

First Independent Pictures

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Cast

William H. Macy
Edmond Burke
Joe Mantegna
Man in Bar
Julia Stiles
Glenna
Rebecca Pidgeon
Edmond's Wife
Ling Bai
Peep Show Girl
Lionel Mark Smith
Pimp
Mena Suvari
Whore
Denise Richards
B-Girl
Dylan Walsh
Interrogator
Russell Hornsby
Shill
Debi Mazar
Matron
Marcus Thomas
Window Man
Jack Wallace
Chaplain
George Wendt
Pawn Shop Owner
Bokeem Woodbine
Prisoner
Dul� Hill
Sharper
Jeffrey Combs
Desk Clerk
Frances Bay
Fortune Teller
Patricia Belcher
Woman on Subway
Wren T. Brown
Preacher
Barry Cullison
Pawn Shop Customer
Vincent Guastaferro
Club Manager
Aldis Hodge
Leafleteer
Matt Landers
Bystander
Michael A. Saad
Library Guard
Wendy Thompson
Club Waitress
Bruce A. Young
Police Officer

Critic Reviews for Edmond

All Critics (76) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (39) | DVD (9)

The last handful of scenes, featuring Bokeem Woodbine as an acquaintance of Edmond's, are worth the price of a ticket.

September 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Top Critic

As with most Mamet scripts, this includes multiple monologues, and the cast delivers them with fervor. But the delivery can't conceal that these diatribes are directed at topics that no longer are pertinent.

August 25, 2006 Comment

Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Makes little sense as a character study, and borders on nonsense as a screed on race in America.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The most effective Mamet play adaptation I've seen since James Foley's blistering 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross.

July 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

Edmond posits that the fury of a sexist, racist psychopath lies just beneath the surface of even the mildest man. In other words, we're in David Mamet World.

July 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Despite agreeably short running time and committed perfs, Edmond is rendered inert by its stagy atmosphere and failure to fully mine the depths of its protagonist's complex psyche.

July 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety

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Scott Foundas

Variety

Top Critic

Hoy d%uFFFDa, (...) una pieza como Edmond no resulta todo lo inquietante que deber%uFFFDa. Eso quiz%uFFFDs sea lo verdaderamente llamativo.

April 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total

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Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

"Edmond" is beyond black comedy, it's a comedy in almost total stygian darkness. A comedy where the laughs make you cough up razor blades.

April 20, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters

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Brian Holcomb

PopMatters

Edmond is presented as the cold truth, but it's really just the truth of how the masculinist Mamet feels.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

... its premiere on DVD is cause for elation for Mamet fans and serious cinephiles ....

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

David Mamet's genius as a weaver of words and observer of human interaction is put on full display here ....

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

This is a small film with a big payback, like a series of tableaux that illustrate how a mildmannered Mr Everyman can become viciously untamed.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: This is London

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Derek Malcolm

This is London

Is this about the nihilistic plight of the alienated, or just nihilistic? A coal-dark satire, or just needlessly dark? The uncomfortable Edmond asks more questions than it answers.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: thelondonpaper

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Stuart McGurk

thelondonpaper

It plays like a low-cal Falling Down, with all the rage of Michael Douglas's office malcontent but none of his dark humour. Possibly the weakest thing Mamet has ever written.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Independent

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Anthony Quinn

Independent

It didn't work.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Sun Online

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Sun Online

Edmond is a slight, self-consciously arty affair that starts off like a gloomy version of Falling Down before petering out with a deeply anti-climatic ending.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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Daily Mirror [UK]

The Falling Down-meets-After Hours pitch and plum cast (William H Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Bai Ling, Mena Suvari) look tempting, but it's not a stretch to see why it's sat on the shelf for two years.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Kevin Harley

Total Film

If it's a relic you're determined to catch at the movies this week, check out Edmond.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

The great man lets rip with deafening flatulent macho nonsense in a truly awful movie, one of the very worst US pictures to be released here in years.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

This is not an easy watch, but it is awfully honest art.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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James Christopher

Times [UK]

Macy is on top form and Mamet fans will savour the vicious barbs of repressed male rage but many will find this is a claustrophobic, stagey exercise without the wit and scope of Glengarry Glen Ross.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4

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Leigh Singer

Film4

The director fails to breathe any sort of life into a piece practically carbon-dated by its flailing assaults on political correctness.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: BBC

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Neil Smith

BBC

Be thankful it's not longer; at 80 minutes, one may still derive some perverse pleasure from the silliness of it all.

July 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ling Bai, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, Debi Mazar, Jeffrey Combs, Dul� Hill Director: Stuart Gordon Summary: With a David Mamet play as its inspiration, Edmond stars William H. Macy as the titular character, a businessman who undergoes a personal

July 11, 2009

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Not terrible. I think David Mamet is a pretty good writer, but a lesson in the meaning of life mixed with gay prison sex and senselessly killing Julia Stiles may not be the best stage for it. Then again, it would have been a pretty dull film otherwise. William H. Macy plays the only character he knows how: a douche

November 19, 2007