People I Know

The story drifts between gripping and intriguing, but Ryan O'Neal is brilliantly effective as the scandal-hit politico caught up in a rape and murder which his long-term agent...

It is a pleasure to watch People I Know, a character piece that puts Pacino's acting chops to work in a very different role as Eli Wurman, an old-school New York publicist in the twilight of his career.

Pacino is electric in this shamefully overlooked, brilliantly scripted parable of an ageing New York PR man reaching the end of his tether.

...there's something brash, retro, and even stupidly touching about Al Pacino as a veteran schmoozing publicist who wanders into a power-elite underworld of backroom parties, cabals, and murder.