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  • 2003
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Smart, resourceful and uncommonly devoted seasoned publicist Eli Wurman (Pacino) has smoothly managed the public lives of the rich, the famous and the incredibly powerful throughout his long career. There has never been a crisis he couldn't handle...until now. (Miramax)

Directed By: Daniel Algrant

Written By: Jon Robin Baitz

  • 2003
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2003
  • R
  • Miramax
  • 1 h 40 m
People I Know
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
53
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Summary Smart, resourceful and uncommonly devoted seasoned publicist Eli Wurman (Pacino) has smoothly managed the public lives of the rich, the famous and the incredibly powerful throughout his long career. There has never been a crisis he couldn't handle...until now. (Miramax)

Directed By: Daniel Algrant

Written By: Jon Robin Baitz

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Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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15% Negative
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90
The very considerable impact of the picture is mainly the work of two men, the author and the star.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
80
Compelling 24-hour odyssey into the life of a world-weary Gotham publicist, driven by a vivid performance from Al Pacino.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Although a marked improvement over Algrant's nightmarishly whimsical debut, "Naked in New York," People I Know is perfumed less by the sweet smell of success than the musty aroma of the Miramax vault.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
50
It was filmed in and around the World Trade Center, and the subsequent cuts, reshoots and sleights of hand designed to obscure that fact prove devastating.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW
40
The picture has a lax, sleepy vibe: There's never anything taut or electric about it. And so, like Pacino's character, we sleepwalk through it.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
25
Smushes together “The Bonfire of the Vanities” (the novel, that is), “True Believer,” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” only it does so without being nearly as good as any of the aforementioned.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Myriad Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Galena, GreeneStreet Films, Chal Productions, In-Motion AG Movie & TV Productions, World Media Fonds V (WMF V)
Release Date Apr 25, 2003
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline He thought he'd seen it all, until the night he saw too much
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