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People I Know (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 51 Fresh: 22  Rotten:29 Average Rating: 5.5/10
 
Consensus: The derivative plot fails to cohere or draw the viewer in.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Synopsis: Al Pacino transforms himself into former all-star publicist Eli Wurman in Dan Algrant's PEOPLE I KNOW. Wurman is a southern-born onetime mover and shaker who is at the end of his rope--and his career. His last major client, Cary Launer (Ryan O'Neal), is an Oscar-winning actor who has Wurman... Al Pacino transforms himself into former all-star publicist Eli Wurman in Dan Algrant's PEOPLE I KNOW. Wurman is a southern-born onetime mover and shaker who is at the end of his rope--and his career. His last major client, Cary Launer (Ryan O'Neal), is an Oscar-winning actor who has Wurman clean up his messes for him; in this case, Wurman has to get drug-addled television host Jilli Hopper (Tea Leoni) out of jail and back to California. But a detour leads Wurman into a secret sex-and-drug den filled with the rich and powerful--and also gets him involved in murder. PEOPLE I KNOW shares its fast-paced, winner-take-all, back stabbing world with SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, which also tore apart New York City's hot publicity world. The eclectic cast does a fine job, with Pacino and Leoni standing out. Kim Basinger has a supporting role as Victoria Gray, Wurman's former sister-in-law who offers him the chance to retire to a quiet life on a ranch, but Wurman first has to pull off a politically controversial fundraiser that is making a lot of people upset. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal, Tea Leoni, Bill Nunn

Director: Dan Algrant
Screenwriter: Jon Robin Baitz
Producer: Michael Nozik, Leslie Urdang, Karen Tenkoff
Composer: Terence Blanchard

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Release:

Aug 7, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33

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Intriguing but deeply flawed thriller.

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08/18/04
Steven Snyder
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[Starts] off like a B-version of Sweet Smell of Success before ending like a C-version of The Parallax View.

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07/21/04
Matt Brunson
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After watching this depressing film, I felt as tired as Al Pacino's character looked.

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07/11/04
Betty Jo Tucker
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Pacino unleashes every trick in his actor's bag... The accent alone batters us into the back of the theater, making us want to go home.

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06/18/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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The movie is weighted down with an excess of plot points that fail to coalesce.

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06/11/04
Ruthe Stein
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Eli is a modern-day version of a tainted weakling who has sold his soul to the devil, but would like to rent it back from time to time.

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09/16/03
Prairie Miller
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O filme, que mostra uma Nova York onde o poder é exercido de forma opressiva e cujas noites escondem festas dignas de De Olhos Bem Fechados, traz Pacino em uma das melhores atuações de sua carreira.

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07/25/03
Pablo Villaca
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At one point, a character kids Eli about being 'moth-eaten,' but the term would be better applied to the film's crippling third act.

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07/08/03
Adam Nayman
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People I Know rests not at the bottom of that pile, not at the top, but just out of range of significance, to be forgotten the minute the audience’s back is turned.

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05/30/03
Todd Gilchrist
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05/28/03
Stanley Kauffmann
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05/21/03
Jules Brenner
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