Playwrite, director, screenwriter – Known for his dialog and tense situations full of drama, writer David Mamet is probably best known as a playwright but several of his films were adapted into screenplays.
While creating the rhythmic nature of his dialogue, he actually uses a metronome during rehearsals to perfect the actors’ delivery of it. He won the on the Pulitzer prize in Drama for “Glengary Glen Ross” which was based on his own time working in a Real Estate office.
Often either declines credit or uses a pseudonym if he is called upon only as a script doctor, or some films he doesn’t direct. The only such film that credited him by name was Hannibal (2001).
Heist (2001)
A career jewel thief finds himself at tense odds with his longtime partner, a crime boss who sends his nephew to keep watch.
House of Games (1987)
David Mamet’s directorial debut – House of Games is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career con artist targeting his next mark.
Glengarrry Glen Ross (1992)
The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life’s outcomes. Living with “Objection, Rebuttal, Close”.
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
