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excellent cast, every actor their own layer to the deep film. based on david mamut's play. every scene is intense. loved it!
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Interested storyline, but can be told without the vulgarity. Rio Rancho land sales was a big fraud. People got ripped off and are still unable to sell thief pile of sand and scrub brush in the desert.
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This is a classic sales movie about salespeople and for salespeople. If I wasn't in sales, this would be a little boring as I wouldn't be able to relate to the dialogue. Even if you aren't involved in the sales realm, though, you may still find the story to be intriguing. There is a great cast including: Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Jack Lemmon. You love to hate most of the characters and even pity them at times. If you're curious about what its like to live a day in the life of a commissioned employee, then this will provide some insight. It can be very cutthroat, deceptive, manipulative, tense and most-of-all stressful. This cast portrays all of these emotions beautifully. I'll watch this until it wears out.
Great movie. High quality Dvd. Excellent character study.An example of real life struggle to survive in the field of sales with little or no support. Top name actors all give excellent performances. Alec Baldwin is stellar in his 5 minute cameo. Pacino ? Hey do I even have to say anything ? Pacino is a master. Alan Arkin ? Great. Jacl Lemmon absolutely kills in his role. Kevein Spacey Phenominal. The guy who plays "Moss" can't recall his name but a great great job as well.
That we see Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, & Jonathan Pryce in supporting rolls gives you an idea of the acting chops on display here: Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, & Alan Arkin carry this finely detailed character study of four salesmen under brutal pressure to sell junky real estate plots to barely interested "customers". Bottom line: Exquisite, hard-edged dialog fantastically acted by an all-star cast. GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS is based on David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, so it's very talky. This is conversation written for mens' taste: lots of swearing & cynicism about competition & life; a harsh, bleak look at American workingmen that is surprisingly not gloomy or depressing to watch. If you like characterization & great (unsentimental) dialog you'll love this film, which carries elements of film noir in its moody lighting, moral failures, and dark themes. Basically we follow the salesmen over one night of selling & grumbling about their fate. Returning to the office the next morning, they find a mystery awaits them - and ratchets up the tension to the climax that shifts your perspectives on what you've seen. We begin with the group being told they have to make a sale of worthless plots in scam developments or lose their jobs. Alec Baldwin chews the scenery in his only scene, specially written for the film version, playing a hilariously toxic ramrod sent by "downtown" to spit blistering contempt at them for being "losers". "My watch cost more than your car" he sneers at Ed Harris' character, a bitter salesman who vacillates between aggression & cowardice. Jack Lemmon's tired, glad-handing hack glares through a storm of four-letter insults with hate that must be seen to be believed. This scene has become a tough-guy classic: "first prize is a Cadillac. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is - you're FIRED." From there the salesmen try to sell worthless land to stale "leads" (a lead is the name & phone number of someone who has expressed interest in buying some real estate). Three of the four have been on a losing streak, so their employers have stopped "wasting" good leads on them; they are in a make or break struggle only allowed to work uninterested buyers. Al Pacino plays the lone success, spending the night selling a "good" lead with a philosophical line of nihilistic nonsense. Jonathan Pryce plays the meek client dazzled by his charismatic salesman's arrogant bravado. Mamet worked briefly in a real estate office and has a scalding view of the sales industry & the corporate America in general. Here is a brutal jungle of people competing to step on each other. This isn't gloomy as you would think; the characterization draws you in & you begin analyzing & comparing the different personalities as who they are begins to determine where things go.Read full review
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