THINGS CHANGE
A film review by Jeff Meyer
Copyright 1988 Jeff Meyer
Since this is a David Mamet film (he directed it, and wrote the screenplay with Shel Silverstein), you can count on several things:
1) Certain actors will be present, from Mamet's own personal stable of personal favorites: in this case, Joe Montagna and Robert Prosky. Don Ameche is a newcomer to Mamet plays/films, and shares center stage with Montagna, and both do a beautiful job.
2) Everyone talks in a kind of rhythmic manner -- the phrases and words spin and loop some. No, people don't talk like that in real life, but that's why Mamet wins awards -- they sound, well, right.
3) God help you if you're trying to predict what's going to happen in this film. I didn't have a clue, and that was the best part of the film; THINGS CHANGE generates curiosity and suspense, as well as laughter, melancholy and drama.
With that, I *really* do not want to say much about the film; I'd prefer for you to go in as virgins to the story. Let's just say that it's about an old shoe-shiner, a mob flunky on probation, Reno, and an interesting bunch of mob personnel that Ameche and Mantegna get mixed up in. Oh, it also has a moral. I think.
P.S. I liked it a lot.
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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