Edmond Page #5

Synopsis: A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Stuart Gordon
Production: First Independent Pictures
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2005
82 min
Website
879 Views


What you can do, no.

I mean, if you wanted it appraised

or wanted to sell it,

or if you wanted it to pawn.

- I understand.

- All right?

- How much to get it appraised?

- $5.

- What would you give me if I pawned it?

- How much you want for it?

Whatever it's worth.

You pawn it, all you're

gonna get is approximately...

- you know how this works?

- No.

What you get,

a quarter of the value.

Approximately for one year,

you're paying 12%.

You can redeem your pledge with

the year, you pay the 12% to that time,

plus the amount

of the loan.

- What is my pledge?

- Well, that depends on what it is.

- What do you mean?

- What it is. Do you understand?

No.

Whatever the amount is,

that is your pledge.

- The amount of the loan?

- That's right.

- I understand.

- What are you looking for the ring?

- What's it worth?

- The most I can give you is 120 bucks.

Let me see that knife.

- I'll take it.

- Good.

I'll be right back.

Give me the ring.

This is nice.

What are you asking for this?

Why's it

so expensive?

Why is it

so expensive?

No, I'm gonna pass.

I'll catch ya later.

Thanks.

- Why is the knife so expensive?

- This is survival knife.

GI issue.

World War I.

- And that is why.

- Survival knife.

- That is correct.

- Is it a good knife?

Is the best knife

money can buy.

You want it?

What are you lookin' for?

- What?

- What are you looking for?

I'm not lookin'

for a goddamn thing.

If you're lookin' for

that joint, it's closed.

- What joint?

- That joint you was lookin' for.

Thanks, no, I'm not

lookin' for that joint.

Well, you lookin' for somethin', and I

think I know what you lookin' for.

- You do?

- Yeah, you come with me.

I get you what you want.

What am I looking for?

I know. We'll get you

some action, my friend.

We'll get you something sweet to shoot

on. I know. That's what I'm doin' here.

What are you saying?

I'm sayin' we gonna

find you somethin' nice.

You're saying you're

gonna find me a woman?

That's what I'm doin'

out here, friend.

- How much?

- Well, how much you want?

- I want somebody clean.

- That's right.

- I want a blowj*b.

- All right.

- How much?

- 100 bucks.

- That's too much.

- Well, how much you wanna spend?

- Say, $35.

- 60.

No. 40?

- Yes.

- Is that all right?

Give me the 40.

I'll give you the 40

when we see the girl.

Hey, I'm not gonna leave you, man.

You comin' with me.

- We goin' to see the girl.

- Good.

I'll give it to you then.

You give it to me now, man,

you understand?

That's the transaction.

You see,

unless you a cop, you give me the money,

then that's entrapment, you understand?

- Yes. I'm not a cop.

- All right. You see what I'm sayin'?

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. more…

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