People I Know (2002)

Director:

Daniel Algrant

Writer (WGA):

Jon Robin Baitz (written by)

Release Date:

21 November 2002 (Peru)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

He thought he'd seen it all, until the night he saw too much

Plot:

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

Plot Keywords:

Actor | Benefit | Politics | Bail | Conspiracy

Cast

Al Pacino	...	Eli Wurman
Kim Basinger	...	Victoria Gray
Ryan O'Neal	...	Cary Launer
Téa Leoni	...	Jilli Hopper
Richard Schiff	...	Elliot Sharansky
Bill Nunn	...	The Reverend Lyle Blunt
Robert Klein	...	Dr. Sandy Napier
Mark Webber	...	Ross
Eldon Bullock	...	Washroom Attendant
Juliet Papa	...	Radio Announcer (voice)
Ramsey Faragallah	...	David Fielding
Brian McConnachie	...	Jamie Hoff
Frank Wood	...	Michael Wormly
Rex Reed	...	Himself
Lewis Dodley	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Der innere Kreis (Germany) (video title)
Im inneren Kreis (Germany)
Influences (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
La noche del crimen (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Eyewitness (Finland) [fi]
Gente Conhecida (Portugal) [pt]
O Articulador (Brazil) [pt]
Oi anthropoi pou xero (Greece) [el]
People I Know (Italy) [it]
Relaciones confidenciales (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language, drug use and brief sexual images.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA (TV rating) | Brazil:14 | Iceland:12 | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Philippines:R-18 | Canada:14A

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Myriad Pictures

Trivia:

In the trailer, a poster for The Parallax View (1974), can be seen behind Al Pacino.

Quotes:

Eli Wurman: I look like Dracula's Uncle Morty from Kiev. Oh man, I should be embalmed.

Movie Connections:

Features "Crossfire" (1982)

Soundtrack:

Symphony #1 in C Opus 21

public relations

A public relations agent in New York (Al Pacino) tries to recapture his misplaced ideals by organizing an event in response to the mayor's crackdown on crime, a crackdown which results in widespread arrests and deportations. Years of drugs have diminished his effectiveness, and the drug culture is an essential part of the film's murky subplot, that has Tea Leoni as a strung out actress who Pacino bails out of jail and ends up going with to a crazy party where people are smoking opium. When she's murdered later that night in her hotel room while Pacino is reclined and nearly passed out in the bathtub, the story begins to be a rather ingenious combination of this effort to mobilize the intellectual, political, and religious elite in response to the heavy-handed mayor, while also wading through the colorful and dangerous gutter in which many of them occasionally like to plod around in. With a great part for Ryan O'Neal as an Oscar winning actor contemplating politics, and some very well cast parts and a great stand-off in the kitchen at the restaurant where the benefit takes place between a leading black minister and his bodyguards and his Jewish nemesis and his bodyguards as well, the film lashes out at the hypocrisy of all of them by focusing in on an addled and vulnerable publicity agent who's just about at the end of his rope.