"Mamet's crisp storytelling, his wonderful heightened language, and his rich ambiguities come together in this disturbing, provocative tale we haven't seen on screen before." - David Ansen, Newsweek
David Mamet's explosive new movie concerns a smooth-talking homicide detective (played by Joe Mantegna in the Columbia Pictures release), who is fiercely proud of being a cop. Although he is Jewish himself, Bobby Gold is annoyed when he becomes involved in a routine investigation into the murder of an elderly Jewish woman in a black ghetto. He is more interested in a high-profile case that he and his partner are on the verge of breaking. But the old woman's murder draws him inexorably deeper into a dark netherworld of anti-Semitism and Jewish terrorism, where his loyalties are blurred, and he is forced to confront his own attitudes about being Jewish. As with his earlier screenplays, Mamet has created a story that reverberates with gripping suspense and confrontation. The result is a film that exposes the paranoia and fear at the heart of today's multiracial urban fabric.
David Mamet wrote the screenplays for The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Untouchables, and The Verdict, which won an Oscar nomination. He has also written and directed Homicide, House of Games, and Things Change. One of America's leading playwrights, he is the author of Speed-the-Plow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross, and many other plays.
"Contoversial... artistically solid. David Mamet's most ambitious and serious film yet." - Caryn James, The New York Times
Be sure to check out the essay by William Van Wert in the David Mamet Museum discussing the conspiracy theory presented in Homicide.
