| Director | David Mamet |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama film, prison film |
| Runtime | 85 min |
| Country | United States |
The synopsis of the plot appears on RogerEbert.com describing the opening to the film stating that: "The first half hour or so of Mamet’s new film, 'Henry Johnson,' adapted from a recent theatrical work, is the playwright undistilled. Evan Jongkeit, a fine actor who’s incidentally Mamet’s son-in-law (he’s married to actress Zosia Mamet), plays the title role. When we meet him, he’s a besuited, buttoned-up lawyer called in to confer with his boss, Mr. Barnes (Chris Bauer). The conversation seems at first to be about abortion, and one might be bracing for a form of polemic to emerge, but it doesn’t. The topic is actually why Henry is invested in securing top-flight legal representation for a certain party, but the punchline, after reams of crips, elliptical Mamet dialogue, is what lands Henry in a prison cell".