In the inner circle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the inner circle |
| Original title | People I know |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Algrant |
| script | Jon Robin Baitz |
| production |
Michael Nozik , Karen Tenkhoff , Leslie Urdang |
| music | Terence Blanchard |
| camera | Peter Deming |
| cut | Suzy Elmiger |
| occupation | |
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In the inner circle (original title: People I Know ) is an American-German thriller by the director Daniel Algrant from 2002.
action
Eli Wurman, a formerly successful PR consultant from New York , who is now getting on in years, is in bad health due to drug abuse and because of his unsteady lifestyle, partly due to his work. In his belief in the good in people and due to his organizational talent, he lets himself be engaged again and again on behalf of his clients, but is also exploited. Nevertheless, he is involved almost day and night, because he thinks that this is what he owes himself and his surroundings, in other words to the people who mean something to him. In the early morning of a gray winter night, for example, he accepted a special assignment from his most important, if not the only customer, the actor Cary Launer. Launer is a former Oscar winner who appears to be both a bit worn-out and overbearing, as he has political ambitions for the future.
One of his playmates, drug addict model and starlet Jilli Hopper, misbehaved at a party and was arrested by the police. Wurman is supposed to pick her up at the station, calm her down and escort her discreetly to her hotel to sober her up and then put her on a Launer plane. Instead, the two go to the party again, because Jilli, as she notices after examining her utensils, has left a camera ("my thing") there. On the way, she cynically insults Wurman, whose mission and background she has seen through relatively quickly, as Launer's cheap henchman. The party in the penthouse of a skyscraper in downtown turns out to be a real orgy and Wurman strolls through the uninhibited ambience a little aghast, even lets himself be tempted to take a puff from an opium pipe. Jilli is soon discovered, picked up and, together with Wurman, as well as the organizer who was found again and Jilli thrown to the camera, is again complimented by this apparently insignificant thrown camera, but not without Jilli in the closing elevator and explicit threats in relation to her recorded explosive and for suggests material in certain circles.
The two are then followed unnoticed to the hotel, where they could supposedly come to rest early in the morning, but lose each other individually due to the previous drug and pill consumption, so that Wurman, who actually wanted to keep an eye on his companion, at some point becomes foggy in the Bathtub dozing off in the bathroom of the suite. So he hardly notices that Jilli is murdered and then raped by a hit man disguised as a waiter. However, the murderer does not find the camera, so that Wurman at first unintentionally but inevitably becomes the target of the social circles compromised by the recordings. The next morning, still completely hungover, he doesn't even notice that Jilli is dead and, after gradual sobering up and a visit to his doctor, he goes about his no longer particularly successful business as usual, which is an evening benefit event organized by his agency should culminate in his quarter.
The increasing pressure of his powerful opponents, including Launer, who Wurman settles in order to break away from him and not to endanger his political career, he encounters in the further discussions of the day and the like. a. a major investor who was present during the orgy, which Wurman can no longer remember due to his high level of consciousness-clouding pill consumption. Everyone asks him about Jilli's ominous recording device, to which he merely replies evasively. Even when the news spreads about Jilli's death, he does not bring the seriousness of the situation and the events of the previous night into the important reference to himself, the ominous involvement in the matter and the impending danger. After a short afternoon conversation with his sister-in-law, who has noticed his increasing decline for a long time and wants to encourage him to exit the downward spiral of his present existence during the benefit event, he is also willing, whereupon both of them leave the event and say goodbye with a view to a promising future together. However, due to his involvement in the dire affair, Wurman will not survive the day.
Reviews
David Rooney wrote in Variety magazine that the script was " tight " and " intelligent ". The dialogues are " sharp ", the film has black humor.
Jamie Russell criticized the script weaknesses in the review published on February 5, 2004 on www.bbc.co.uk. The intrigue is too obvious, which weakens the effect of Pacino's " powerful " portrayal.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a political thriller that was "carried by its good leading actor " and told " the dark story at a restrained pace and with many close-ups ". He is "committed to a cinema in the style of the 1970s ".
background
The film was shot in New York . It had its world premiere on October 11, 2002 in Italy and was presented at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2003 . The film grossed approximately 122 million US dollars in cinemas in the USA and approximately 1.54 million euros in Italy. In Spain there were over 222,000 cinema viewers.
Web links
- In the inner circle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In the inner circle at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- In the inner circle at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ uk.rottentomatoes.com, accessed on September 12, 2007 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.bbc.co.uk, accessed September 12, 2007
- ↑ In the inner circle in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 12, 2007
- ^ Filming locations for People I Know, accessed September 12, 2007
- ↑ Release dates for People I Know, accessed September 12, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for People I Know, accessed September 12, 2007
