Edmond (2005)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Stuart Gordon

Writer: David Mamet

Cinematographer: Denis Maloney

Composer: Bobby Johnston

Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Bokeem Woodbine, Rebecca Pidgeon, Joe Mantegna, Bai Ling, Lionel Mark Smith

Adapted by Mamet from his acclaimed 1982 play, this disturbing and provocative film – in which a mousey businessman leaves his wife and sets off into the Manhattan night in search of sex, encountering prostitutes, pimps, hustlers, and pawnbrokers – proves to be an excellent portrait of a man (and perhaps a society) in the midst of mental breakdown as well as a damning examination of prejudice. Iain.Stott