We're No Angels (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802132024)

With this screenplay David Mamet gives the traditional prison-break story his special blend of gripping suspense, slapdash buffoonery, and ingenious plotting.
Bob, a vicious killer, cheats the electric chair by shooting his way out of the penitentiary, forcing two reluctant convicts to come along. Desperately dodging the cops, Ned and Jim reach a river that runs along the Canadian border. The bridge across it becomes their only hope of reaching safety, but a checkpoint guards the crossing. Mamet builds the tension to the breaking point with a series of sizzling surprises as time and again the escaped jailbirds fail by a hairsbreadth to slip past the guards.
Disguised as priests, Ned and Jim are mistaken for two famous theologians attending the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows at a local monastery. The wickedly funny Mamet takes his two heroes down a dizzying course of serpentine adventures, demonstrating once again his peerless mas-tery of the art of cinematic suspense.

Author: David Mamet, Mamet
ISBN-10: 0802132022
ISBN-13: 9780802132024
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/1994
Pages: 131
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.29h x 5.39w x 0.38d