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People I Know (2002)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 2/25

PeopIK
2/25: People I Know isn't a movie.

It's just a bunch of people getting together to make nothing important. I never liked The Parallax View, and when I saw the poster in People I Know, it was a hint of how the film was going to end. So there it is.

Al Pacino used to be selective, having done 28 movies in total from 1971 to 2000. Afterwards, he stopped giving a fuck and starred in whatever. The result is a huge decline in quality. That's the case here. As a publicist, Al Pacino looks so tired that he'll need a month's worth of sleep. While at that, he should lay off the drugs, but it doesn't matter because he's dead. At one point, he looked like Phil Spector; ironically, that's who Al Pacino played as eleven years later for a TV movie called *drum roll* Phil Spector.

There's a murder. But who cares? It's all about getting people to come to the publicist's big pointless gathering at the Palms. That's what the movie is all about. Ryan O'Neal shows up to give his best three-minute performance since Oliver's Story in 1978. Somebody called his character an Oscar winner. Ha! That's a laugh, but he can still gawk at his daughter's statuette. Well...Ryan O'Neal is currently dead, so never mind.

All in all, the only reason people are fooled into seeing People I Know is that it's an Al Pacino vehicle.