A sex- and violence-filled romp that sprays David Mamet's staccato dialogue like rubber bullets over the audience.
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08/17/06
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Edmond (2006)
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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:33
Rotten:39
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: A gothic fairytale that catches director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp at the top of their games.
Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: We've all seen him: the crazy guy on the street corner whose mutterings, just shy of intelligent commentary, make us wonder how he ended up this way. Edmond Burke (William H. Macy, THANK YOU FOR... [More]
Starring: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Reviews for Edmond
When the filmmakers gave the script to all the studios around town and told them that they had Macy and Mamet and they all said, 'Great! We'll read it this weekend.' Maybe there was a reason why they never heard from them again.
08/14/06
While all involved deserve credit for getting even limited financing to film such an off-putting work, they've mainly just proven that some things are better left on the stage.
08/13/06
Mamet's script may not be entirely convincing as either satire or social commentary, but in Macy's hands, poor, pathetic Edmond's story finds its shocking, darkly funny resonance.
08/11/06
Go, by all means, but be prepared to take a beating.
08/10/06
Under Gordon’s eye, Macy draws pity for a character who feels nothing beyond his own suffering.
08/01/06
Makes little sense as a character study, and borders on nonsense as a screed on race in America.
07/28/06
The most effective Mamet play adaptation I've seen since James Foley's blistering 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross.
07/27/06
Top Critic... the new film adaptation works as a tough, flavorful dark night of the soul, as a middle-aged drone finally has his moment of clarity, which looks a lot like madness.
07/27/06
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.
07/26/06
Top CriticDespite 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.
07/21/06
After a while, I simply couldn’t empathize with Edmond and all his pain and suffering, and certainly not with all his exposed bigotries and delusions.
07/19/06
Top CriticMamet's relentless attempts to provoke viewers seem pretty childish today.
07/19/06
Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America’s best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted.
07/17/06
Top CriticThere is no actor more at ease with battered nerves than William H. Macy.
07/17/06
As there's always at least one obscure independent in the annual Oscar race, the whole thing might as well begin here.
07/15/06
A thriller that's dated, pointless and sludgy slow (even clocking in at 76 minutes).
07/14/06
Top CriticEdmond is too self-absorbed for us to care much about his fate, but like the proverbial train wreck, you can't tear your eyes -- or your ears -- away from the spectacle.
07/14/06
Top CriticIt plays like a hodgepodge of barely connected short films that all happen to star the same actor.
07/14/06
It may be too bleak for most, and as befits a movie based on a one-act play (written by Mamet in 1982), it can be speechy.
07/14/06
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