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Phil Spector
Directed by
David Mamet
R
2013
1h 32m
Biography
,
Drama
,
and more
6.2
51%
32%
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A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
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Cast of Phil Spector
Helen Mirren
Linda Kenney Baden
Al Pacino
Phil Spector
Jeffrey Tambor
Bruce Cutler
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Mock Prosecutor
Rebecca Pidgeon
Dr. Fallon
John Pirruccello
Nick Stavros
James Tolkan
Judge Fidler
David Aaron Baker
ADA Alan Jackson
Matt Malloy
Dr. Spitz
Jenn Lyon
Focus Group Woman #3
Suzanne Turner
Woman (uncredited)
Yolonda Ross
Kelly
Jack Wallace
Music Store Owner
Dominic Hoffman
Mr. Brown
Philip Martin
James
Anthony Quarles
Bodyguard
Vernon Campbell
Bodyguard
Adalgiza Chermont
Focus Group Woman
Gail Silver
Focus Group Woman
Steve Park
Focus Group Man
Ella Dershowitz
Maggie - Paralegal
Noah Mamet
Barbarian Boy
Geisha Otero
Cleaning Woman
Tatiana Godfrey
Bailiff
Kate Blumberg
Woman on Stand
Gordon De Vol
Anchorman
Mary B. McCann
Court Newscaster
Lauren Schacher
Reporter
Clara Mamet
Back to Mono Girl
Natalija Nogulich
Giovanetta Ricci
Beverly Brooks
Mansion Newscaster
Neil Pepe
Interviewer
Tony Mamet
Barry
Linda Kimbrough
Mock Judge
Martin Jarvis
British TV Interviewer
Bob Jennings
LAPD Officer Smith
Thomas J. Calagna
Recording Mixer
Richard L. Friedman
Lawyer
Matthew Rauch
Mike
Meghan Marx
Lana Clarkson
Jessica Wood
Gun Test Woman
Joey Auzenne
Bellhop
Linda Miller
Ronnie Spector
Alfredo Narciso
Assistant
Stephen Tyrone Williams
Producer
Kimko
Mock Bailiff
Jehan-Pierre 'The Preacher' Vassau
Policeman
Steve McAuliff
Bodyguard
Lizza Monet Morales
Irene
Stephen A. Pope
Ms. Baden's Chauffeur
George Aguilar
Mr. Spector's Chauffeur
Chris Cenatiempo
LAPD Policeman
Tom Bruno
Court House Policeman
Jonathan Forte
Musician in Recording Session
Peter Conboy
L.A. Country Sheriff (uncredited)
Jill DeMonstoy
Protester (uncredited)
Angel Dillemuth
Valet (uncredited)
David Henry Gerson
Interviewer (uncredited)
Don Gomez
George - Bodyguard (uncredited)
Jordan Lage
Bit Part (uncredited)
Dennis Lauricella
Juror (uncredited)
Michael Maren
Courtroom Journalist (uncredited)
Stevan Lee Mraovitch
Adriano de Souza (uncredited)
George Peck
Courtroom Attorney (uncredited)
Cynthia Silver
Woman (uncredited)
Tom Stratford
Los Angeles County Sheriff (uncredited)
Rick Toscano
Young Phil (uncredited)
Steve Triebes
Defense Lawyer (uncredited)
Uzimann
Business Traveler (uncredited)
Emilio Vitolo
Protestor (uncredited)
Todd Weeks
Interviewer (uncredited)
Phil Spector Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Verne Gay
A frustrating film that leaves the questions -- pretty much all of them -- unanswered.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
Mirren and Pacino are fantastic, and Tambor rightfully underplays the larger-than-life Cutler, who rivals Spector himself.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Mamet treats Spector with morbid fascination more than empathy, like a majestic but strange butterfly he can put behind glass and display but never truly understand.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
If you are willing and able to take it on its own fictional terms, it does work as a well-acted legal drama, though even on that level, you're better off watching The Good Wife.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Mamet's script and direction are spot on and richly detailed, from the crisply naturalistic dialogue to the details of Spector's reclusive life.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Both actors are great and Mamet's gift with dialogue remains intact but the plotting and choice of storytelling in Phil Spector makes for a final product that doesn't make enough of a statement or tell us much about its title subject.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
Mamet's film isn't sure what the hell to make of Spector. But, strangely, that's part of what makes it so compelling.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
Even with a Mamet screenplay and actors like Mr. Pacino and Ms. Mirren there is not much anyone can do to make the audience care.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
It's better than most films of its kind, even as it remains unsatisfying as historical re-creation, philosophical meditation or pure drama.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
Pacino and Mirren's teamwork keeps Phil Spector watchable even when it's dousing itself in dramatic ethanol and lighting a match.
The Hollywood Reporter
Tim Goodman
Mamet will succeed in planting doubt (reasonable or not) in viewers' minds in this account of the murder trial of the larger-than-life Spector, brilliantly embodied by Pacino.
Salon.com
Willa Paskin
Phil Spector is missing dramatic tension.
Slate
Troy Patterson
I'm wondering if it is possible to do something analogous to a citizen's arrest and file a credit dispute on behalf of the viewing public. Nobody produced this film.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
It's as if Mamet, who directed as well as wrote, decided that the point of the venture was Pacino and didn't much bother to paint in around the star.
Slant Magazine
John Semley
As written and directed by Mamet, never shy about his exceptionalist view of Jewish identity, the sympathy the film affords to Spector scans as suspect.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Phil Spector doesn't give us much to talk about or applaud.
Wall Street Journal
Dorothy Rabinowitz
Mr. Pacino's portrait of Spector is stunning in its guile and vitality.
Orlando Sentinel
Hal Boedeker
The results are tedious, talky and self-important.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Phil Spector is watchable, but given the lofty expectations raised by HBO movies, it's also the cinematic equivalent of a bad hair day.
Sacramento Bee
Carla Meyer
The movie broadens from Spector's legal case into larger explorations of prejudices people can harbor about celebrities and eccentrics. The result is a thoughtful, sometimes fascinating, purposefully inconclusive character study.
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