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01/26/06
Oleanna (1994)
56 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 9 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: Indicative of the fears of the decade that produced it but also dramatizing the eternal miscommunication between the sexes, OLEANNA is the first of his own plays to be directed for the screen by David Mamet. The film version retains the play's unity of place as well as its cast of two, but these... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt
Director: David Mamet
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05/30/08
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...feels like it was made in a rush, on the cheap, and to fulfill a contractual obligation.... a disappointment compared to his House of Games or Heist, which at least possessed the fall-back position of being intermittently entertaining.
04/05/06
the film tried a little too hard to make the audience squirm -- but it also forced me to think.
09/17/03
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05/20/03
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Zeroes in on the lust for power that lies behind the confrontations waged in the name of gender, class, age, and political correctness.
08/23/02
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