Stuart Gordon

EDMOND

Screening room

Status: Completed

Director(s): Stuart Gordon

Main cast: William H. Macy, Frances Bay, Rebecca Pidgeon

Long synopsis : ''You are not where you belong,'' says the fortune-teller. Thus Edmond begins his brutal descent into a hilarious and horrifying contemporary urban hell in David Mamet's savagely funny black comedy. The encounter with the fortune-teller has caused bland businessman Edmond (William H. Macy) to confront the emptiness of his life and marriage. Appalled, he flees the safe boredom of his home into the vortex of the City's darkest streets, plummeting into a free fall he mistakes for liberation. To Edmond's surprise, it's dark outside: hookers are expensive, pimps are violent, and the guy running a three-card monte game on the sidewalk is a conman. Edmond is robbed, beaten and left bewildered. But there's a strange comfort at the bottom. Exhilirated by a random, bloody act of violence, Edmond picks up a waitress, Glenna (Julia Stiles), but their riotous sex play leads first to conversation, then to murder. With nothing to lose but his liberty, Edmond spirals further out of control, towards prison, personal disintegration, and a most brutal redemption. ''Every fear hides a wish. I think I'm going to like it here.''

Cast

William H. Macy, Frances Bay, Rebecca Pidgeon, Joe Mantegna, Denise Richards, Wendy Thompson

Crew

Producer(s): Stuart Gordon, Chris Hanley, Molly Hassell, Duffy Hecht
Director(s): Stuart Gordon
Screenplay: David Mamet
DP: Denis Maloney
Editing: Andy Horvitch
Original Music: Bobby Johnston
Set Design: Alan E. Muraoka

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Production company: HANLEY Chris, MUSE, FIRST INDEPENDENT PICTURES, PRETTY DANGEROUS FILMS, WERNER FILMS, UMPHREY Lorna
Production date: 2005
Language: English
Duration: 76 min