Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only “closers” will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters… –IMDb
James Foley (born December 28, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, the son of a lawyer.His 1986 film At Close Range was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. —Wikipedia
A film for all times. http://cinemauprising.blogspot.com/2012/04/glengarry-glen-ross-20-years-of-fuck.html
Jack Lemmon is monumental in this film, and Al Pacino is fucking hilarious. The dialogues are so awesomely written.
Capital: it fails us now. I’m no fan of Foley as a director, and I think some of the deliberate noir-ish touches are laid on a little thick (Pacino’s bar monologue is swaddled in an overly atmospheric… read review