The Spanish Prisoner (Blu-ray) PG
It's the oldest con in the book.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 12, 2019
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Ammo Content
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Campbell Scott, Ben Gazzara & Steve Martin | |
Performer: | Ricky Jay, Felicity Huffman, Rebecca Pidgeon & Ed O'Neill | |
Directed by | David Mamet | |
Edited by | Barbara Tulliver | |
Screenwriting by | David Mamet | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Produced by | Jean Doumanian | |
Director of Photography: | Gabriel Beristain |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A twisting tale of paranoia....Martin does a nice turn as a clever con artist...
Box Office
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One exceedingly well-crafted piece of manipulation that keeps the audience strung along with every intricate turn of the plot.
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TheMovieReport.com
Rating: 2/5 --
A substandard con flick that is surprisingly lightweight for a David Mamet film. In fact, it's so watered down that it feels more like a forgettable T.V. Movie-of-the-week.
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eFilmCritic.com
This is probably Mamet's most purely enjoyable film since the gangster comedy Things Change.
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Film4
...This diabolical blend of suspense and wit brims with dark surprise....It's spellbinding...
Rolling Stone
...[A] Rubik's Cube of a suspense film....As satisfying as a really good crossword puzzle... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
The Spanish Prisoner shares with Glengarry Glen Ross a vision of life as a cosmic con game in which the victimizers feed the fantasies of the victims.
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Observer
Product Description:
Moody, austere, and unabashedly clever, THE SPANISH PRISONER is familiar ground for puzzle-loving writer-director David Mamet. Campbell Scott plays the Hitchcockian hero Joe Ross, an unassuming fall guy who has invented a mysterious process worth an unnamed, but presumably enormous, figure. Joe's share in the reward is uncertain, however, and his growing nervousness is subtly stoked by Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a charming and apparently wealthy new 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 crush on him (Rebecca Pidgeon, speaking her husband's lines as only she can). The big con is always fun to watch from the inside, but Mamet knows it's even more fun when the audience is on the outside, left to imagine the con as all-encompassing so that everyone and everything is suspect. The fine ensemble acting and terse, loaded dialogue add to the atmosphere of total suspense while the muted but rich production design produces a too-believable longing in Joe, whose tiniest greedy qualm is still enough to spell disaster.