An adaptation of the David Mamet play, first produced in 1982 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and adapted for the screen by Mamet, Edmond centers on Edmond Burke (Macy), a successful businessman who walks out on his family on the advice of a fortune teller and plunges into the vortex of New York's hellish underworld, where he is mugged and robbed before he kills a pimp and a would-be actress, finally ending up in prison.