Pacino unleashes every trick in his actor's bag... The accent alone batters us into the back of the theater, making us want to go home.
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People I Know (2003)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:22
Rotten:29
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The derivative plot fails to cohere or draw the viewer in.
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Al Pacino transforms himself into former all-star publicist Eli Wurman in Dan Algrant's PEOPLE I KNOW. Wurman is a southern-born onetime mover and shaker who is at the end of his rope--and his... [More]
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Reviews for People I Know
It was filmed in and around the World Trade Center, and the subsequent cuts, reshoots and sleights of hand designed to obscure that fact prove devastating.
04/25/03
Top CriticAll big, subversive fun. In a depressing sort of way.
05/09/03
Not much to admire.
05/21/03
[Starts] off like a B-version of Sweet Smell of Success before ending like a C-version of The Parallax View.
07/21/04
People I Know hits the mark with its sophisticated depiction of a worn-out PR agent desperately trying to find a way to redeem his sad and sorry life.
04/24/03
Sometimes incisive but finally overbaked drama.
04/24/03
Top CriticWhile the film is perhaps a bit too talky, it's so fiendishly insightful that it keeps us hooked.
01/29/03
Pacino is superb as Eli.
03/10/03
Worth watching for Pacino's hollow-eyed, full-bodied performance and for the strong supporting cast surrounding him.
04/26/03
People I Know rests not at the bottom of that pile, not at the top, but just out of range of significance, to be forgotten the minute the audience’s back is turned.
05/30/03
Dropped into this ocean of bathos, even Al can't tread water -- at that precise moment, he and his performance drown.
05/09/03
Top CriticA character-study-in- constant-motion, with a little murder on the side -- and because that character is played by Pacino, it often fascinates.
02/22/03
An expired shelf life is integral to the movie's downbeat charm.
04/22/03
Top CriticThe movie's stock 60's nostalgia is annoyingly facile. In glibly evoking heroes like Kennedy and King, the movie succumbs to the same mindless name-dropping it purports to decry.
04/25/03
Top CriticRanks with Sweet Smell of Success in its ruthless portrayal of the publicity business.
01/29/03
Top CriticAl Pacino convincing as a burnt-out case in this theatrical piece covering 24 hours in the life of a publicist.
02/13/03
Smushes together The Bonfire of the Vanities (the novel, that is), True Believer, and Eyes Wide Shut, only it does so without being nearly as good as any of the aforementioned.
04/29/03
Almost as much fun as reading Page Six.
04/25/03
Top CriticThis film is all about scenery chewing and the cast does it extremely well, especially Pacino and Leone, who in their short time together are a blast.
04/25/03
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