Things Change
Summary:
Perhaps it was his collaborator Shel Silverstein who said to screenwriter David Mamet "Lighten up. Do a comedy." Whatever the case, Things Change was a welcome change of pace for Mamet, both as scenarist and director. Don Ameche also goes against his usual grain by playing a downtrodden Chicago shoeshine boy (if one can call an 80-year-old a "boy") who is arrested for a cr... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Don Ameche - (Gino)
Joe Mantegna - (Jerry)
Robert Prosky - (Joseph Vincent)
J.J. Johnston - (Frankie)
Ricky Jay - (Mr. Silver)
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Review:
This gentle fable marked a departure from the stark moralizing and often opaque characters of writer/director David Mamet's other films and plays. Mamet co-wrote the screenplay with poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein, and at times two main characters seem like stand-ins for the writers themselves: Joe Mantegna's callous, pragmatic ga... Continue >>
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