David Mamets 10 Best Movies (As Director) According To Rotten Tomatoes
David Mamet’s 10 Best Movies (As Director), According To Rotten Tomatoes
David Mamet is one of the most venerated and well-respected screenwriters in the history of Hollywood. Here are his best films as a director.
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David Mamet is one of the most venerated and well-respected screenwriters in the history of Hollywood. After spending his first few years in the industry penning scripts for such revered movies as and The Verdict and The Untouchables, Mamet made his directorial debut in 1987 via House of Games. In 1992, Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play Glengarry Glen Ross was adapted into a feature film.
In total, Mamet has directed 11 feature films, six short films, and a handful of TV episodes since 1987. His writing has been nominated for three Golden Globes and two Oscars. For a clearer picture, here are David Mamet’s 10 Best Movies as Director, According to Rotten Tomatoes.
10 Oleanna (1994) 53%
Adapted by Mamet from his own stage play, Oleanna is a dramatic two-hander starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt as a professor and student grappling over their opaque sexual relationship.
Carol (Eisenstadt) is a failing student in Professor John’s (Macy) college course. When Carol confronts her teacher over her poor grade, John agrees to give the young woman an “A” in class if she continues to visit him and discuss the course material. After some untoward words, John is hit with a sexual harassment accusation that upends his personal and professional life. Macy earned an Independent Spirit Award nod for his performance.
9 Spartan (2004) 65%
In Mamet’s dramatic action flick Spartan, Val Kilmer plays Scott, a hardened special ops officer. When the daughter of a prestigious U.S. politician is kidnapped, Scott finds himself in the unenviable position of figuring out what happened to Laura Newton (Kristen Bell) before it’s too late.
Scott’s investigation brings him to Dubai, where he uncovers a sordid sex slavery ring. As Scott’s duties call for brains over brawn, he gets mixed up in a series of back-stabbings and double-crosses that put his life in grave danger.
8 Heist (2001) 66%
Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito headline Mamet’s Heist, a film in which a disgraced jewel thief finds himself entangled in a battle with his accomplice and longtime crime boss.
When Joe Moore (Hackman) is caught stealing on videotape, his money-mover (aka fence) Mickey Bergman (DeVito) goes back on his word out of fear of being pinched as well. Dead broke, Joe turns to his partner Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo) and Don Pincus (Ricky Jay) to pull off a heist of a lifetime while getting back at Bergman in the process.
7 Redbelt (2008) 68%
In Mamet’s Redbelt, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Mike Terry, a mixed martial arts fighter turned Jujitsu trainer who becomes caught in a web of Hollywood intrigue upon saving a movie star in a bar fight.
Mike Terry earns a meager living as an MMA trainer in Los Angeles. His wife Sondra (Alice Braga) wants Mike to return to the ring and fight for a higher wage, but he finds competition demeaning and dishonorable. When Mike takes an unlikely job on the set of a Hollywood film after rescuing actor Chet Frank (Tim Allen), his life takes an unexpected turn that leads him back into the ring.
6 Things Change (1988) 83%
While not quite as beloved as his debut feature House of Games, Mamet avoided a sophomore slump with the release of his well-received second feature, Things Change.
Co-written with Mamet by Shel Silverstein, the film stars Hollywood veteran Dom Ameche is a Gino, a mild-mannered shoe shiner who is recruited to take the fall for a high-profile mafia hit. With little time left to live, small-time hood Jerry (Joe Mantegna) chaperones Gino on a weekend getaway to enjoy one final hurrah.
5 State And Main (2000) 86%
Mamet skewers the machinations of Hollywood in State and Main, a satire in which an independent film crew works tirelessly to overcome the pitfalls of making a film on location in a small town.
Led by film director Walt Price (William H. Macy), the cast and crew of the Hollywood production “The Old Mill” ventures to small-town Vermont to complete the film on a tight schedule. However, a slew of problems arises from constant script rewrites, the philandering male lead, local governmental pressure, an insatiable female lead, and more.
4 The Spanish Prisoner (1997) 89%
The Spanish Prisoner returns Mamet to the world of shady confidence games and corrupt corporate intrigue. The twisty plot concerns Joe Ross (Campbell Scott), a financial manager who is offered an investment he can’t refuse upon meeting mysterious businessman Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin) while on a sunny vacation.
Once the investment is made, Joe slowly discovers how flimsy and faulty Dell’s proposition is. Joe is misled at every turn and suffers unscrupulous back-stabbings and double-crosses that threaten to ruin his financial career forever.
3 Homicide (1991) 91%
In Mamet’s Homicide, Joe Mantegna plays Bobby Gold, a Jewish police detective assigned to catch one of the nation’s most elusive criminals. But even before he can start his investigation, Gold is reassigned to a case involving an anti-semitic hate crime.
At first, Gold fails to acknowledge his heritage in the wake of the murder of an elderly Jewish lady found in the basement of a black-owned candy store. However, the further into the case he delves the more Gold has to confront the nature of his ancestry.
2 House Of Games (1987) 96%
Mamet scored a Golden Globe nod for Best Screenplay following the release of his feature debut House of Games in 1987. The film stars Joe Mantegna as a fast-talking grifter who shows a therapist the unwritten rules of the confidence game.
When high-profile psychologist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) opts to help a gambling patient by delving into the world and informing herself of the environment, she is taken in by Mike (Mantegna), a street hustler and skilled conman who shows Margaret the seedy underbelly of big-city card rooms and gambling parlors.
1 The Winslow Boy (1999) 97%
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the highest-rated film of Mamet’s directorial career thus far belongs to The Winslow Boy, a period courtroom procedural starring Rebecca Pidgeon and Jeremy Northam.
Set in England during the early 1900s, the film follows Arthur Winslow (Nigel Hawthorne), a banking dignitary whose life is upended by the news that his 14-yer-old son Ronnie (Guy Edwards) has been arrested for stealing five shillings. When Ronnie claims his innocence, Arthurs hires the most prestigious lawyer in town and vows to acquit his son in the court of law. The film, based on the Terrence Ratigan play, is also a remake of the 1948 film of the same name.
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