here my first david mamet direct film . fitting and since it be his first and as well . the story here be uneven and it move along like any con movie and from the little con to the big con to the all encompassing con . it like the grifter and but without that film level of act . ( in that film and john cusack be sort of bland but that be the nature of his character . ) the acting here be very flat ( i sometimes wonder if the bland acting by crouse be suppose to be some sort of attack on psychoanalysis ) . at least in the beginning . it never get really good and but it evolve beyond painfully stiff line reading after about ten minute . early in the film and some of lindsay crouse line the way she read them sound a if theyre inner monologue or narration and which they aren not . with the arrival of mantegna thing pick up . the dialogue here isn not as fun a it should be . i be expect crackerjack ring a ding ding line that roll off the tongue and but these one do not . it all sound very read and rather than speak . maybe mamet evolve after this film and loosen up and but if not and then maybe he should let others direct his word . he far too precious with them here and a a result and they lose their rhythmic and jazzy quality . what more strange be that other than this and the film doesn not look or feel like a play . the camera be very cinematic . my only problem with glengarry glen ross be that it look too much like film theatre and but in that film the actor be not only accomplished and but relaxed and free . everything flow . i wouldn not mind so much if it sound like movie character speak movie line or even play character speak play line but here it sound like movie ( or even book ) character speak play line . it a weird jumble of theatre and film that just doesn not work . that doesn not mean the movie be bad it isn not and it often extremely entertaining . the best chunk be in the middle . it standard con movie stuff represent the new guy ( in this case and girl ) margaret ford ( lindsay crouse ) get involve in the seedy con underworld . how she get involve be represent she a psychiatrist and one of her patient and billy be a compulsive gambler . she want to help him out with his gamble debt and so she walk into the house of game and a dingy game room where con men work in a back room . i will admit the setup be pretty improbable . ( be they just expect crouse to come in . be they expect she would write a cheque . be billy in on it . one of these question be definitely answer by the end and however . ) and from here the con be start to roll out . i find the beginning one the little learner one to be the most fun . be get a lesson in the art of the con as much a crouse be . we see the end coming and and then we do not see the second end come and and then the real end i do not see come but maybe you do . the ball just keep bounce back and forth and by the last scene in the movie we realize that the second crouse walk into the house of game she find her true call . i be go to forgive the annoy opening and the improbable bit and the strange line reading because there be many good thing here . if the first part of the movie seem stagy and stick with it . after the half hour mark it do really get a momentum go . if you want a fun con movie and then here she be . if you want mamet and go watch glengarry glen ross again james foley do him well .