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ISBN: 0802130283

ISBN13: 9780802130280

House of Games (Mamet, David)

Name: Tough, tense, gritty and terse. Pure Mamet.
Item: House of Games (Mamet, David)
Rating: 5
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By David Mamet and Jonathan Ned Katz

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Book Overview

Playwright David Mamet's brilliant debut as a film director, House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients, who entraps her--with her own subconscious connivance--in a series of criminal escapades. It is a breathless roller-coaster ride of a movie that keeps springing one bizarre surprise after another, sustaining suspense with dazzling audacity. The unsuspecting audience is lured into a psychological and moral thicket of troubling implications, which bear the unmistakable imprint of Mamet's intensely personal vision.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0802130283

ISBN13:9780802130280

Release Date:January 1994

Publisher:Grove Press

Length:100 Pages

Weight:0.32 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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Rated 5 stars
Tough, tense, gritty and terse. Pure Mamet.

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 2, 2002

As far as screenplays go, House of Games is a work of great cutting quality; written in Mamet's recognized concise style, House of Games permeates with a foreboding, volatile aura. When a too structured and career-driven yet refined and scholarly Dr. Margaret Ford, psychiatrist and author of the best-selling self-help book, Driven, is duped into helping Billy Hahn, a young man with a gambling addiction, she gets more than...

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Rated 5 stars
The script.....

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 3, 2001

There came a moment in House of Games, in the movie, where I knew I'd heard something. I rewound, played, heard it, rewound played, heard it, and found that about the fourth time around, I was patting my thigh, in tune with something or other; the Mamet-speak. It's rhythm.And then the script. I read that same scene (it's the one: "you gotta tell. Your telling which hand the coin is in") and the same thing. Aha! yes. But I...

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