Edmond (2005)

Recommended
USA
Feature Film
Director: Stuart Gordon
Writer: David Mamet
Cinematographer: Denis Maloney
Composer: Bobby Johnston
Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles, Bokeem Woodbine, Rebecca Pidgeon, Joe Mantegna, Bai Ling, Lionel Mark Smith

Adapted by Mamet from his acclaimed 1982 play, this disturbing and provocative film – in which a mousey businessman leaves his wife and sets off into the Manhattan night in search of sex, encountering prostitutes, pimps, hustlers, and pawnbrokers – proves to be an excellent portrait of a man (and perhaps a society) in the midst of mental breakdown as well as a damning examination of prejudice. Iain.Stott