Glengarry Glen Ross
United States
1992
100 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
Synopsis
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
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James Foley
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
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T. J. Harman
30Oct12
it's ironic that a writer who now totes himself as a conservative made the best bit of fiction agit-prop against the business world that writers & filmmakers who died communist could never make. The entire cast is great but if you had to pick the 2 best peformances are Lemmon (as desperpate & amoral as he is you sympathize with him right up to his punishment) & Baldwin (1 o f the great 1 scene performances).
dschank
22Aug12
despite my rabid cinephilia, i'm not much of a theater lover. accordingly, the hammy, actors-studio hyperbole of this one didn't work for me on any level. i suppose the overwrought language has a bombastic appeal, but 20 years after elia kazan and the like, it seems redundant and nostalgic. as a critique of capitalism, it's one-dimensional and unenlightening. plus, mamet is a tea partier now, so who cares?
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Beautifully cynical
By Steve Pulaski on June 23, 2012
The people depicted in Glengarry Glen Ross are self-centered, despicable rats in the filthiest of sewers. Four men who work in a low-rent, shady real estate office, selling timeshare-like plans to… read review
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By davecito ! on June 16, 2009
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
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The Leads Are Weak...
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