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The playwright’s first movie in 17 years is a brute talkathon.
INTERVIEW: The actor reprises his role (yes, the titular one) from Mamet's play for a film adaptation, which he also produces ...
The famed playwright struggles to transfer theatrical drama to the screen in the feature adaptation of his prison drama, ...
Evan Jonigkeit stars as a man whose inability to grow a spine turns him into a sucker for a world filled with nefarious ...
Shia LaBeouf makes a striking convict, as David Mamet tries to take us out of our comfort zone. But he has created an overly ...
Chris Bauer and Dominic Hoffman also star in the writer-director’s lean screen adaptation of his four-character 2023 play.
Split into quadrants, Henry Johnson opens with lawyer Henry Johnson (Evan Jonigkeit) meeting with his boss Mr. Barnes (Chris Bauer), whom he’s asked to hire an unnamed friend who’s facing murder ...
Two legendary Hollywood outcasts open up about joining forces for 'Henry Johnson' — a film so indie, they're distributing it ...
By David Rooney Chief Film Critic There’s no ... That makes it a pleasure to be reminded, in Henry Johnson’s attention-grabbing opening, of Mamet at the peak of his considerable powers.
David Mamet has been a celebrated playwright ... He was pinning it down like a butterfly and diagramming it. “Henry Johnson” is the film version of a Mamet play that premiered in Los Angeles ...