Movies

December, 1988

Working from his own shrewd screenplay co-scripted with protean humorist (and Playboy cartoonist) Shel Silverstein, David Mamet takes the Mafia for a joy ride in Things Change (Columbia), his second shot as a movie director. It is also filmdom's second pot shot at the Cosa Nostra this year, with Married to the Mob an established hit. While he persists in the mannered style of his first film, House of Games, Mamet has it together here in a richly funny, satisfying spoof of Mob morality. Joe Mante...