Edmond features Julia Stiles, Rebecca Pidgeon, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, Joe Mantegna, Bai Ling, Jeffrey Combs, Dylan Walsh and George Wendt in supporting roles.

Edmond Burke is a middle-aged New York City businessman who visits a tarot fortune teller on the way home.

The man gives him the address to a strip club, where Edmond is kicked out by a bouncer for not paying for a stripper's drink.

Now even more sexually frustrated, Edmond goes to a peep show; having never been to such a place before, he is disappointed when he realizes that he is not allowed to have actual sex with the performer.

Suddenly euphoric, Edmond enters a coffee shop and tells a young waitress, Glenna, his newfound worldview of instant gratification.

Edmond feels the urge to preach about his own experiences, and as he stands in the doorway of the church, the woman from the subway recognizes him and calls into the street for the police.

He speaks of how he has always feared black people, but now that he shares a room with one, he can finally feel a bond.

The website's consensus reads, "Despite an electrifying performance by William H. Macy, David Mamet's one-act morality play translates poorly into a film that is overburdened by dialogue.

[3] The New York Times film critic Stephen Holden said:William H. Macy is perfectly cast... a master at playing sticks of human dynamite in mild-mannered camouflage... the nerviest screen performance of his career.A faithful adaptation of the one-act play from 1982... its taunting insistence that everyone is racist, voiced in abrasive, staccato Mamet-speak, leaves you feeling battered and vaguely guilty.

As in much of Mr. Mamet's work, there is a quality of adolescent nose-thumbing, as though it all might be a cruel practical joke designed solely to make us squirm... it was certainly unforgettable.