Advantages: great story, keeps you on your toes Disadvantages: a little far fetched at times
...enjoyed Mamet's excellent take on the crime genre (Homicide) recently, my partner and I decided to rent another of his works, the more recent 'Spanish Prisoner', which is Mamet's attempt at a thriller. The premise being that Joe Ross (ably played by Campbell Scott) is a victim of a truly elaborate and large scale con job seemingly masterminded by Jimmy Dell (played by a very straight Steve Martin) - designed to deprive him of lots of money for a ... ...gets deeper and deeper in the mire it appears that his only friend is secretary Susan Ricci (Rebecca Pidgeon - apparently the directors wife! Which would explain why she was also in Homicide), and he attempts to extricate himself from an extremely difficult situation.
The film twists and turns from an early point, and by late in the film you simply are unable to trust anyone at all. Even in the final scenes I was still a little uncertain as to who ...
yaphet_kotto 07.08.2005
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Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
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