Edmond

Edmond Burke is a middle-aged businessman whose routine life is upended by a passing remark from a fortune teller. Convinced that he does not belong in the comfortable existence he has built, he walks out on his wife and sets off into the city at night. What begins as a search for something missing turns into a descent through the sex trade, petty crime and violence, as long-suppressed anger and prejudice rise to the surface in a man who no longer recognises the rules of the world he has entered.

The film is a drama-thriller directed by Stuart Gordon, working from a screenplay by David Mamet. It followed Gordon's earlier horror and science-fiction titles such as Re-Animator, Dagon and Dreams in the Witch House, and came before Stuck in 2007. William H. Macy leads as Edmond, with Rebecca Pidgeon as his wife, Frances Bay as the fortune teller, and Joe Mantegna and Denise Richards among a credited cast of thirty-nine. Produced through companies in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom on a budget of about ten million dollars, it runs eighty-two minutes.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb it holds 6.2 out of 10 from roughly thirteen thousand votes, and on TMDB 6 out of 10 from about two hundred votes. A critics' rating of 5.7 out of 10 from seventy-five reviews places professional opinion slightly below the IMDb audience figure.