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Eli Wurman (Academy Award winner Al Pacino) is coming apart at the seams. A legendary New York PR man whose glory days are far behind him, Wurman is lost in the blur of media, celebrity and politics. But when a seemingly routine incident, involving a temperamental starlet (Tea Leoni) and a world-famous movie star (Ryan O’Neal) leads him into the murky world of political conspiracy and murder, Eli ignores his deteriorating health and pours his manic energies into pleading, seducing, cajoling and recruiting Manhattan’s movers and shakers to come out and support his cause. In the end, Eli discovers one undeniable truth: it’s not who you are that matters, it’s who you know.
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- Sundance Festival press conference with actors Al Pacino and Richard Schiff, Director Daniel Algrant and Writer Jon Robin Baitz
- Cast interviews with Tea Leoni, Ryan O’Neal and Richard Schiff
- Trailer
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pacino Versatility,
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This review is from: People I Know [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
A 'way out' film that guides you through the impossible jungle of public relations and the publicity agent. The brilliance of the film is the apparent trite yet sharp and angular content..The agony of trying to differentiate truth from lies and fantasy is conveyed by the superb script and excellent camera work. ..Al Pacino in a unique role plays his part of the broken and disillusioned publicity agent to perfection. Attempting to expose the layers of truth and lies that make up our everyday lives makes for a riveting and thought provoking film. The concept was a risky gamble that paid off. It will become a cult film.
David Turner (London UK)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Aging American actors lack the grace of their British counterparts,
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This review is from: People I Know [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
This film is about a period that has come to an end, a complete end, before the earthquake, mudslide and volcanic eruption known as the Twin Tower Terrorist Attack or 9/11 for short. New York politics, and beyond American politics seen through the eyes of a mediocre, Jewish PR agent who is losing his main customer and who is still giving time to Afro-American causes not understanding that they don't want and they don't need white Jewish good-doing benevolent liberals to take care of them. They have come of age and start understanding they have to take care of themselves. On the other side, the supposedly liberal white politicians have become so corrupted that they cannot stand upright any more and they just want to lie low and disappear from the public eye before it's too late. A new generation has not come out of the wings yet and they are more or less obliged to last a little longer. The subject of the film is that trite and that superficial if not superfluous, and the final murder does not add anything to this rather thin plot. Yet the film is a rather good film because Al Pacino is acting his part so well that he really looks the part of the poor absolutely conscious old man who is doing one more gig before going out for ever to some solitary and telephone-deprived barn on a Virginia farm. Is he overacting as some think? I don't think so. In fact he is surrounded by actors who are second zone as compared to him, so that what is good acting looks like overacting against that background. The real question is then why did Al Pacino accept to act in a film with no one next to him that could compete with his long experience and his phenomenal professional profile? No one can answer this question, except Al Pacino himself. But that is often what happens with aging actors. They are only proposed films that are made for them individually so that they end up shining bright in a dark alley and blinding us at the same time instead of making other actors sparkle and glow.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tragic character study,
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This review is from: People I Know [DVD] [2004] (DVD)
Pacino is of course brilliant, portraying a fraying publicist trying to make some meaning in his life. Tea Leoni, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal and Richard Schiff are among the strong supporting cast.
Our protagonist is sent by one of his dwindling star clients to 'clean up' his mess by getting the star's latest girl on a plane. Beaten down by work, age and drugs, Eli instead finds himself in possession of incriminating material and tangled up in city politics; but all he wants to do is make his benefit event a success and then retreat to a peaceful retirement with his sister-in-law's friendship. For all his media savvy, he's caught in the grip of forces he can barely perceive, much less escape: his self-knowledge comes too late. It's a melancholy character piece covering 24 hours and amply fulfils its focussed ambitions. There aren't any gunfights or car chases, but it's one of Pacino's most haunting performances.
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