People I Know

Part seedy character study and part '70s-style paranoid thriller, driven by Al Pacino's blustering, grandstanding performance as down-at-the-heels New York publicist Eli Wurman. Over the course of a long 24 hours, the ailing, over-the-hill Eli tries to pull together a benefit that will, at least in his own mind, restore a scrap of the integrity he enjoyed back when his media savvy helped further important causes, like the civil rights movement. But Eli's waning energies are diverted from the plight of undocumented Nigerians facing imminent deportation to the sordid travails of spoiled, long-time client Cary Launer (Ryan O'Neal), a fatuous movie star with political am...