Home of Games is David Mamet's 1987 motion picture directorial debut. Mamet authored a screenplay, from the story he devised sustaining Jonathan Katz. A film's cast includes Joe Mantegna, Lindsay Crouse, and J.T. Walsh.

Margaret Ford (Crouse) occurs as psychologist, among the virtually all leading inside her field. She has upright published the book, Caused: Compulsion & Obsession inside Everyday Life, which has processed her financially easily-off. 1 day, she is inside the session sustaining the patient, Billy Hahn, world health organization informs her that his life is around danger. He owes many thousand dollars to the criminal figure -- money he doesn't use -- & in case he doesn't pay, he is flushed. Margaret visits a nominal haunt and confronts the creditor, Mike (Mantegnthe), a con artist. Microphone agrees to forgive the debt whenever Margaret accompanies him to a high-stakes poker game as his girlfriend, utilizing her to help identify a tells of his poker rivals. This, Margaret discovers, is an elaborate artifice. However, her interest is piqued per enigmatic Microphone & his globe, & a subsequent dalliance by using the human will require in unsafe, life-serious dimensions.

Mamet's stage output got yearn explored means of deception, especially amongst the dregs of society. His transition to celluloid was met with wide eclat by two critics & film festival audiences. In addition, a congratulations a film garnered, coupled sustaining Mamet's screenplay for the summertime hit The Untouchables, allowed him to establish something of a power base around Hollywood. Drawing very much of a praise was the film's stylised dialogue, the auteur's trademark Mametspeak seeming to act as a character itself. A film's plot twists were also praised for their ingenuity & invention; these are said by several fans of a film that foremost-period viewers should approach the film by owning when little anterior noesis when conceivable.

A film is among several titles to become mentioned among Roger Ebert's "The Great Movies."

Of note: Filmed around Seattle, though the screenplay makes allusions to Mamet's native Chicago.