Homicide (Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 8, 2009
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Ving Rhames & Rebecca Pidgeon | |
Performer: | Natalija Nogulich | |
Directed by | David Mamet | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The dialogue is a pleasure....The bone-tired-don't-bother-me Mamet acting fits perfectly here...
Film Comment
Unfortunately, the transitions are sometimes abrupt and unconvincing, despite Mantegna's intensity.
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Time Out
...[A] period piece, which gets by on sheer outrageousness...
USA Today
David Mamet's "Homicide" is a brilliant muddle: compelling, exhilarating and, at the same time, profoundly dubious.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/4 --
The movie crackles with energy and life, and with throwaway slang dialogue by Mamet, who takes realistic speech patterns and simplifies them into a kind of hammer-and-nail poetry.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 83/100 --
The experience of spending time with the 'Homicide' team is so pleasurable that it's disappointing to be reminded of the stringent requirements of "plot" and "resolution."
Apollo Guide
Rating: B- --
Homicide is nothing if not a clever package.
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Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
In HOMICIDE, writer-director David Mamet begins with the cinematic stereotype of the tough cop--Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), a detective hot on the heels of a fugitive named Randolph (Ving Rhames). But Gold gets sidetracked when a Jewish family requests that he be assigned to the investigation of their matriarch's murder. It isn't long before the stereotype breaks down and Gold is revealed as a self-hating Jew who has spent his life seeking the approval of tough guys, having gone so far as to become one himself. Meanwhile, the case leads him to discover a clandestine war between an anti-Semitic group and a Zionist league--which calls on Gold to ignore his duty as a cop and remember his duty as a Jew. As in other Mamet films (especially THE SPANISH PRISONER), Gold is a hero who scratches the surface one day, only to discover that the world is far more complicated than he ever imagined and that he must make moral choices he never planned on making. Perennial Mamet actors Rebecca Pidgeon, William H. Macy, and Ricky Jay lend support in minor but pivotal roles.
Product Description:
In David Mamet's cinema, nothing is as it seems-so you better know what you're looking for. Unfortunately, the protagonist of Mamet's nightmarish urban odyssey Homicide, inner-city police detective Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), is as bewildered about who he is as who (or what) he's after. Gold's investigation, following the murder of an elderly Jewish candy-shop owner, leads him down a path of obscure encounters and clues, as well as profound reckoning with his own self and identity. Filled with Mamet's trademark verbal play and featuring standout supporting performances from William H. Macy, Ving Rhames, and Rebecca Pidgeon, Homicide is a taut, rich work from a true American original.
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- UPC: 715515048514
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