History Creator / DavidMamet

* MassiveMultiplayerScam:
** ''Film/{{House of Games}}'' features a psychiatrist getting involved in a world of con men who sometimes perform cons that include many participants. It turns out that her entire experience with the con men has been a giant con on her.
** ''Film/StateAndMain'': The end reveals that the first trial was actually a fake put on to allow the main character to perjure himself and regret it, allowing him to tell the truth when the real trial starts]].

Mamet is most famous for his plays, and the film versions thereof, which are [[SelfAdaptation frequently adapted by Mamet himself]]. These works are known best for [[MametSpeak clever, vulgar, and rapid-fire worldplay]]. His plays also tend to be written for smaller casts: ''Theatre/AmericanBuffalo'', ''Theatre/SpeedThePlow'', and ''Boston Marriage'', three of his best-known plays are all three-person plays. He has published more than thirty plays over his forty-year career.

* ''Film/{{Edmond}}'' (writer)

* ''Homicide'' (writer/director)

Beyond adapting (and often directing) the film versions of his own plays, Mamet has also written and directed original works for the screen, including ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' (writer), ''Film/{{Spartan}}'' (director), and ''Film/{{Redbelt}}'' (writer and director). He also wrote the adapted screenplay to Creator/BrianDePalma's ''Film/TheUntouchables1987''.

* ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' (script doctor)

* TragicHero: John in ''Oleanna''. A university lecturer about to get his tenure, with a loving wife and a payment on a house going through, decides to help a female student falling behind in his class. He makes a few off-the-cuff, inappropriate comments to the female student (he says "I'm not your father" in response to her wanting to be told what to do, he relates an anecdote about the rich copulating with less clothes on to the student), only to be told by the student in the next act that she's having him done for sexual harassment because of his comments.

Mamet is most famous for his plays, and the film versions thereof, which are frequently adapted by Mamet himself. These works are known best for [[MametSpeak clever, vulgar, and rapid-fire worldplay]]. His plays also tend to be written for smaller casts: ''Theatre/AmericanBuffalo'', ''Theatre/SpeedThePlow'', and ''Boston Marriage'', three of his best-known plays are all three-person plays. He has published more than thirty plays over his forty-year career.

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is a renowned American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. He was born in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} and educated at Goddard College in Vermont. Mamet is currently married to actress Creator/RebeccaPidgeon, who has appeared in many of his plays and films.

Works include:

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* ''Phil Spector'' (made-for-HBO movie starring Creator/AlPacino as the notorious record producer, and focusing on his murder trial)

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David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is a renowned American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. He was born in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} in 1947 and attended Goddard College in Vermont. He is currently married to actress Creator/RebeccaPidgeon, who has appeared in many of his plays and films.

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is a renowned American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. He was born in Chicago in 1947 and attended Goddard College in Vermont. He is currently married to actress Creator/RebeccaPidgeon, who has appeared in many of his plays and films.

Beyond adapting (and often directing) the film versions of his own plays, Mamet has also written and directed original works for the screen, including ''Film/{{Ronin}}'' (writer), ''Film/{{Spartan}}'' (director), and ''Film/{{Redbelt}}'' (writer and director). He also wrote the adapted screenplay to Brian De Palma's ''Film/TheUntouchables''.

* ''Film/TheUntouchables'' (writer)

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is a renowned American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. He was born in Chicago in 1947 and attended Goddard College in Vermont. He is currently married to actress Rebecca Pidgeon, who has appeared in many of his plays and films.

* ''Heist'' (writer/director)

* ''Film/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice1981'' (writer)

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