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Title: An Acting Feast!
Review: The only movie I can think of with 3 Best Actor Oscar-winners (Lemmon, Pacino and Spacey) and it shows! In addition, you get two fine character actors in Harris and Arkin and a Hollywood star (Baldwin) slumming in a non-featured role. Add to that David Mamet's finest writing and you have a film that is endlessly compelling! This is, IMHO, Lemmon's finest work, and that is saying something! You can truly see in this film why he has earned the title "America's Olivier." The movie also benefits from having someone other than Mamet direct his script. We avoid the monotone line readings that sometimes plague his films (which, however, are an oddly fascinating trademark nonetheless). This is a modern "Death Of A Salesman" and a movie you will find yourself watching again and again for the acting and the writing. Waiting on the DVD!
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