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People I Know
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R,1hr 40min
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April 25, 2003
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Miramax Films
Synopsis: A powerful behind-the-scenes man in politics and show business finds himself skidding into a very public scandal in this taut drama. Eli Wurman (Al Pacino) was raised in the deep South, attended Harvard Law School, and has devoted his spare time to progressive political causes since working alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. However, Wurman now makes his living as a press agent and PR man, and while he's near the top of his profession, years of overwork, constant smoking and drinking, ... Full Synopsis
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Would like to think of itself as a film on the edge, a contemporary descendant of "Sweet Smell of Success." But as it dawdles along, it fails to find contemporary corollaries to the super-charged language and caffeine-fueled pace of that grimy 1957 masterpiece. Full Review
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53
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Featured Cast
Eli Wurman
Victoria Gray
Cary Launer
Jilli Hopper
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Al Pacino at the People I Know premiere
Gina Gershon at the People I Know premiere
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