MVD Entertainment Group has a new addition to its film-fan-pleasing Marquee Collection series with news this past week that director Stuart Gordon’s 2005 surreal thriller, Edmond, based on David Mamet’s 1982 stage play, and starring William H. Macy, will be arriving as a Blu-ray product offering on Nov. 9.
Edmond Burke lives and works in New York City, he’s bored, married, but lonely and more than a bit sexually frustrated, so one night, on his way home, he does something out of the ordinary and stops in at a tarot card reader’s business as a distraction.
The fortune teller (Frances Bay — Happy Gilmore, The Attic, Nomads) gives him a reading. You know, all the usual rigamarole about this card and that, and then tells Edmond point blank that he is not where he belongs. He already was predisposed to that and so this encounter confirms it … thus begins a great and tragic adventure on the streets of New York City.
During the course of the evening he is cheated, robbed, humiliated, beats a pimp senseless, has sex with Glenna (Julia Stiles — The Bourne Ultimatum, Mona Lisa Smiles, Silver Linings Playbook), a waitress he meets at a diner … and kills her.
His misery for stopping by the tarot card reader that night is only just beginning!!
Bonus features include two commentary options, one with playwright David Mamet and the second with director Stuart Gordon (Dagon, Fortress, Re-Animator), producer Duffy Hecht and actor Lionel Mark Smith (as the pimp), deleted scenes the featurette titled “Anatomy of a Thriller.”
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