
Eli Wurman is a decadent drug addicted New Yorker public relation, who is promoting a social event on behalf of Afro-Americans. Along two days of his crazy life, the day of the event and the day before, he makes contacts and favors, 'kissing asses', using drugs etc. Victoria Gray is his widow sister-in-law and passion in the past. Cary Launer is an Oscar winner actor and principal client of Eli. On the day before of the event, Eli finds out secrets that evolve powerful men of... (Full plot summary below)
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Eli Wurman is a decadent drug addicted New Yorker public relation, who is promoting a social event on behalf of Afro-Americans. Along two days of his crazy life, the day of the event and the day before, he makes contacts and favors, 'kissing asses', using drugs etc. Victoria Gray is his widow sister-in-law and passion in the past. Cary Launer is an Oscar winner actor and principal client of Eli. On the day before of the event, Eli finds out secrets that evolve powerful men of America.
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| Film Journal InternationalHarry HaunA character-study-in- constant-motion, with a little murder on the side -- and because that character is played by Pacino, it often fascinates. |
| Long Island PressPrairie MillerEli is a modern-day version of a tainted weakling who has sold his soul to the devil, but would like to rent it back from time to time. |
| NewsdayJan StuartAl Pacino gives a career-crowning performance under Dan Algrant's perceptive direction. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatPeople I Know hits the mark with its sophisticated depiction of a worn-out PR agent desperately trying to find a way to redeem his sad and sorry life. |
| Entertainment TodayBrent SimonRich in accrued, non-flashy detail and character potentiality, People I Know charts the lives of some vivid, interesting people. Narratively, though, it bites off more than it can comfortably chew. |
| London Evening StandardAntonia QuirkePacino with crazy hair and a gravepale face... inside clothes that seem too big and heavy for him. He is so concentrated, so compact. He sucks all the light out of the frame. He is the reason to see the film. |
| National PostKatrina OnstadPacino is so determined, so fiercely wrecked, that you almost don't notice when the film dissolves into a cheesy conspiracy piece -- almost. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunAll big, subversive fun. In a depressing sort of way. |
| Journal News (Westchester, NY)Marshall FineWorth watching for Pacino's hollow-eyed, full-bodied performance and for the strong supporting cast surrounding him. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe misshapen People I Know is not especially worth knowing. In fact, it barely seems to know itself. |