United States
1991
101 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
486
In David Mamet’s cinema, nothing is as it seems—so you better know what you’re looking for. Unfortunately, the protagonist of Mamet’s nightmarish urban odyssey Homicide, inner-city police detective Bobby Gold (Joe Mantegna), is as bewildered about who he is as who (or what) he’s after. Gold’s investigation, following the murder of an elderly Jewish candy-shop owner, leads him down a path of obscure encounters and clues, to a profound reckoning with his own identity. Filled with Mamet’s trademark verbal play and featuring standout supporting performances from William H. Macy, Ving Rhames, and Rebecca Pidgeon, Homicide is a taut, rich work from a true American original.
| Bobby Gold | Joe Mantegna |
| Tim Sullivan | William H. Macy |
| Chava | Natalija Nogulich |
| Randolph | Ving Rhames |
| Lt. Senna | Vincent Guastaferro |
| Miss Klein | Rebecca Pidgeon |
| Jilly Curran | J. J. Johnston |
| Frank | Jack Wallace |
| Charlie Olcott | Lionel Mark Smith |
| Director | David Mamet |
| Screenplay | David Mamet |
| Executive Producer | Ron Rotholz |
| Producer | Michael Hausman and Edward R. Pressman |
| Director of photography | Roger Deakins |
| Editing | Barbara Tulliver |
| Production Design | Michael Merritt |
| Costume design | Nan Cibula |
| Music | Alaric Jans |
| Unit production manager | Michael Hausman |
| Assistant directors | Matthew Carlisle and Karen Collins |
| Art direction | Susan Kaufman |
| Production sound mixer | John Pritchett |
| Supervising sound editor | Maurice Schell |
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
David Mamet’s Homicide is many things: an introspective character study, an examination of racial and religious identity, a conspiracy thriller—and also, as critics have been noting, a damn good cop drama. “Homicide is the rare big-screen policier that can stand up to The Shield . . .
Words are the trained fleas in David Mamet’s sidewalk circus—dirty words, often bloodstained, usually swarming, that perform their acrobatic stunts for gawkers . . .
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