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Published: 5 July 2007

William H Macy as Edmond

Mamet’s dark take on fear and self-loathing

EDMOND
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Certificate 18

NOW here’s a weird one. A very weird one.
Short (82 minutes) but not very sweet, David Mamet’s dark script from his own play follows Edmond (William H Macy) through a long downward spiral after he walks out on his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon) and becomes a shiftless loner.
Wandering through the shadowy streets of New York, he’s a minnow swimming through seedy shoals of shark-infested waters, ripped off by street traders, overcharged by night-club hookers, beaten up by pimps and getting into all sorts of trouble.
Finally he snaps, and stabs a waitress (Julia Stiles) to death after she takes him home for a one-night stand.
His humiliation and self-loathing continue in jail, where he is savagely abused by other prisoners.
This depressing little essay is not for the squeamish, or indeed for mainstream audiences, though Mamet’s name will doubtless give it a certain curiosity value.

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