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Lakeboat
Directed by
Joe Mantegna
R
2000
1h 38m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.0
83%
61%
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Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.
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Cast of Lakeboat
Charles Durning
Skippy
Peter Falk
Pierman
Robert Forster
Joe
J.J. Johnston
Stan
Denis Leary
Fireman
Tony Mamet
Dale Katzman
Jack Wallace
Fred
George Wendt
Collins
Andy García
Guigliani
Roberta Angelica
Prostitute
Diane Fabian
Janice (at 50)
Lori Gordon
Janice
Steven Grayhm
Fred (at 18)
Jason Jazrawy
Joe Litko (at 20)
Patrick Patterson
Janice's Husband
Saul Rubinek
Cuthman
Charles Seixas
Fred's Uncle
Joe Mantegna
Man at Gate (uncredited)
Lakeboat Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Based on Mamet's experience as a freighter on the Great Lakes while a grad English lit student, Mantegna's screen version is so dramatically inert and artistically shapeless resulting in an uninvolving memory film.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Watching it, you come to understand what it is that Mamet has been true to all these years.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Lakeboat requires its audiences to embrace it as lovingly as Mamet and Mantegna embrace its men, but it's a lot to ask.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I once taught a class on Mamet's films. I wish I could have opened it with this one, because for Mamet, it all starts here.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The piece is a theatrical curio, but no less fascinating for that.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film's chief pleasure, a considerable one, is in hearing Mr. Mamet's characteristic idiom ... so close to its real-world source.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
'Yeah. It's alright.' 'Good enough for me.'
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
As drama, it's not much; as a meditation on language and storytelling, it's a treat.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A first-rate movie made from one of David Mamet's lesser plays.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Where Mantegna succeeds is in providing a forum for some great acting.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
As with any Mamet script, the cast is all, and these old boys take his macho monologues and make them sound like Homer.
Houston Chronicle
Louis B. Parks
More play than movie. But it's unusual for either. It's neither plot-driven like many plays nor action- and image-driven like most movies.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The raw raunch and the latent yearning and pain [Mamet] sets down here with such assurance yield a movie of special rewards.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There's enough there to make it of interest to more than Mamet completists.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
The script is so inherently stagy that setting the film on a real boat doesn't pay off.
Chicago Tribune
John Petrakis
This early effort is more a curiosity piece than anything else.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
An elegiac and tartly amusing tribute to a group of guys trying to make the most of the hand life has dealt them.
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