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| Al Pacino | ... |
Harry Levine
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| Jerry Orbach | ... |
Jake Manheim
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| Susan Floyd | ... |
Joanna
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Ellen McElduff | ... |
Mavis
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Michel Moinot | ... |
Maurice
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Judette Jones | ... |
Supermarket cashier
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| Paul J.Q. Lee | ... |
Counterman
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Joel Eidelsberg | ... |
Harry's brother
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Maria Gentile | ... |
Sarah /
Bellydancer
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| Christopher Evan Welch | ... |
Hamlet actor
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| Neal Jones | ... |
Eteocles /
Actor in play
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Laura Esterman | ... |
Actor in play /
Messenger
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| Hazelle Goodman | ... |
Cafe Dante waitress
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James Bulleit | ... |
Sgt. Boyle - Undercover cop #1
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Mark Scarola | ... |
Undercover cop #2
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When aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer Harry Levine is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry takes the opportunity to solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a work of semi-fiction based on their longtime friendship. Although he initially denies having read it, Jake later attacks it on aesthetic grounds, and deep-seated feelings of betrayal and jealousy surface, resulting in a traumatic confrontation. Written by duke1029@aol.com
A Broadway play turned into a film starring Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach. Think of this script as sort of a "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" between two heterosexual men. In the span of two hours (with flashbacks) layer after layer of their relatively short friendship is peeled away to raw feelings and pseudo-honest expressions until a few truths may have been reached. My only problem with it is in the style of the dialog much of the time feeling the scripts are invisible but right in front of them. The timing is too "ready" and snappy, the comebacks polished, the exchanges sculpted with care. Had it (they) been relaxed, awkward, slow to respond, overly fast to respond, etc., I could've believed it. As it is, I never lost awareness this was a staged play.