Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 3
This adaptation of David Mamet's play is every bit as compelling and witty as its source material, thanks in large part to a clever script and a bevy of powerhouse actors.
Average Rating: 9.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
This adaptation of David Mamet's play is every bit as compelling and witty as its source material, thanks in large part to a clever script and a bevy of powerhouse actors.
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David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents work their same tired leads, until one hatches a scheme to burglarize the office, steal the leads, and sell them to a rival. Featuring a cast that
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Alec Baldwin
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Jonathan Pryce
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Bruce Altman
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Jude Ciccolella
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Paul Butler
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Lori Tan Chinn
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Neal Jones
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All Critics (52) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (3) | DVD (36)
For anyone who loves sharp dialogue, compelling characters, and a stinging social rebuke, Glengarry Glen Ross is not to be missed.
Mamet reveals his exceptional talent for writing almost poetic working-class vernacular, scores his major implicit thematic thrusts against the nature of the way business-at-large is conducted.
David Mamet's play about the wheelings and dealings of real-estate salesmen gets dedicated playing from a splendid cast, but gains nothing by the transfer from stage to screen.
Top CriticThough the performances are satisfying in a projected way, they're nullified by an uninspired atmosphere around them. Despite the colorful and witty utterances of its characters, "Glengarry" feels artificial and rarefied.
Foley is as adept at managing this intensely psychodramatic material as he is handling an ensemble cast with the combined power of a runaway locomotive.
You can see the joy with which these actors get their teeth into these great lines, after living through movies in which flat dialogue serves only to advance the story.
Head of the direction duties, James Foley, strings it together well, making it harmonise like the musical piece it has succeeded to be.
As you would expect from a Mamet play, the dialogue sizzles.
...the most effective big-screen translation of a Mamet stage play.
The overall film, writing and acting are so darn good that I watched it and then immediately started it over again.
Mamet has a special gift for drawing portriats of lowlifers who are harsh but also funny, his salesmen are a far cry from Arthur Miller's Loman in Death of a Salesman.
This brilliant, gutsy film features a nervy script by David Mamet and career-topping performances by Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce and Alec Baldwin.
A welcome if foul-mouthed reminder of just what it takes for a lot of folk to make it through the working day.
As fierce as it is funny. Rarely does does a film sustain such a fever pitch of dramatic intensity. One of the very best of 1992.
Words fly with the speed and impact of bullets.
As cynical as they come. But witty and clever.
Despite an acidic world-view, it generates a real feeling of the worth of artistic achievement and personal struggle.
Audience Reviews for Glengarry Glen Ross
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- Ricky Roma: Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum. I'll show you how to chew it.
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- Blake: A-I-D-A. Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. Attention - Do I have you attention? Interest - Are you interested? I know you are, because it's fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks. Decision - Have you made your decision for Christ? And Action.
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- Blake: F*$k you-- that's my name! You know why, mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight, I drove an $80,000 BMW. That's my name.
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- Blake: Your name is 'you're wanting', and you can't play the man's game, you can't close them, and then tell your wife your troubles.
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- Blake: I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it.
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- Blake: ABC. 'A', always. 'B', be. 'C', closing. ALWAYS BE CLOSING. Always be closing.
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