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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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David Mamet
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Actors:
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Ricky Jay,
Richard L. Friedman,
Jerry Graff,
G. Roy Levin,
Hilary Hinckle,
Campbell Scott,
Steve Martin,
Rebecca Pidgeon,
Ben Gazzara,
Felicity Huffman
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Duration:
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110 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)87.5
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Plot Summary:
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Cranky, austere, and unabashedly clever, THE SPANISH PRISONER is familiar ground for riddle-loving Grub Streeter-steersman David Mamet. Campbell Scott plays the Hitchcockian ideal Joe Ross, an unassuming drop off guy who has invented a mysterious method worth an unnamed, but all things considered enormous, figure. Joe's part in the prize is at a loose end, however, and his growing nervousness is subtly stoked by Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a charming and manifestly wealthy rejuvenated friend. Suddenly Joe finds himself wondering who he can trust: his boss, his friends, Jimmy, the FBI, or even... the girl at work who has a quell on him (Rebecca Pidgeon, speaking her hide's lines as at best she can). The big con is often fun to watch from the arranged, but Mamet knows it's all the same more fun when the audience is on the , left to take it for granted the con as all-encompassing so that everyone and everything is suspect. The out of this world ensemble acting and terse, brim-full discussion add to the sky of entire anxiousness while the muted but rich production design produces a too-believable try to find in Joe, whose tiniest niggardly doubt is still to signify calamity.
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The Spanish Prisoner
A young inventor (Scott) makes the mistake of befriending a mysterious millionaire (Martin) while at a holiday patronize to make a lay into to a principal plutocrat, no greater than to perceive his life slowly unravelling when it turns at large that no-one and nothing is what it seems to be. Whereas in earlier films such as House of Games and Homicide, Mamet favoured an ultra-impure, naturalistic duologue, here he appears to be attempting to broaden his assortment with a quaintly pass‚-fashioned (but inert supremely comical) screenplay. The emerge is a bit like vintage Hitchcock, at best without the ruthless edge. Pidgeon steals the show as the relentlessly chipper PA at Scott's body. This is purposes Mamet's most purely enjoyable pic since the gangster comedy Things Swop. ...
The Spanish Prisoner
A clever, intriguing game of paired-cross over and treble bluff that keeps the audience, as properly as its characters, guessing throughout.
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