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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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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.

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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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For anyone who loves sharp dialogue, compelling characters, and a stinging social rebuke, Glengarry Glen Ross is not to be missed.

June 10, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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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.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
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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.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Though 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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Head of the direction duties, James Foley, strings it together well, making it harmonise like the musical piece it has succeeded to be.

February 5, 2013 Full Review Source: HeyUGuys
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As you would expect from a Mamet play, the dialogue sizzles.

March 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

...the most effective big-screen translation of a Mamet stage play.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
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The overall film, writing and acting are so darn good that I watched it and then immediately started it over again.

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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.

August 17, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
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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.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

A welcome if foul-mouthed reminder of just what it takes for a lot of folk to make it through the working day.

November 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

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.

October 21, 2005
Fantastica Daily

Words fly with the speed and impact of bullets.

October 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star
Arizona Daily Star

As cynical as they come. But witty and clever.

January 1, 2005
Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

Despite an acidic world-view, it generates a real feeling of the worth of artistic achievement and personal struggle.

December 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
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Audience Reviews for Glengarry Glen Ross

A film that is drives, lives, and courses through your veins, David Mamet brings his stage play to the silver screen and discusses the world of the salesman. Mamet's words are so intricate and beautiful, filthy and philandering, and yet they sparkle with their brilliance. Most of the film contains these long, convoluted rants from different characters that contain subtle context about their livelihood. Their dialogue is full of the candor and realism of being a salesman in the cutthroat business of selling real estate. Mamet creates characters that are full of expectation, remorse, screaming at one another and anyone to let themselves finally become heard. These words come out of the mouths of a cast that is more impressively assembled than any ever before, including Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, and Kevin Spacey. Each performance has its own breadth, no matter how unknown some of the actors were at the time (Kevin Spacey, I'm looking at you) and always feels desperate. Whether you're the iron willed pro who is closing in on the deal of the century or the warbling old man on his last leg against the crushing pain of unemployment and ruin, they each are wailing for someone to listen to their plight. Though these performances are amazing, it's Jack Lemmon who steals the show on more than one occasion as the chatterbox Shelley Levene. His rants are usually the longest, spiteful, most epithet filled pieces of Americana you have ever heard. He speaks on the state of salesman, his own problems, and time and again begs for understanding from his manager. Al Pacino is also impressive as the only closing salesman, pulling punches and scams in order to get to the yes. Everyone is always lying to their customers, but Pacino is suave and charismatic to boot. The film is set in 24 hours and doesn't move around many sets, but it encases many lives and the consequences of irrational behavior. A classic of American theater as well as film, this is one film that must be seen in your lifetime.
October 5, 2010
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Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the terrific exemples that a film, doesn't need expensive scenes with several settings, just a captivating and intelligent screenplay.
August 4, 2012
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    1. 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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    1. 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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    1. Blake: ABC. 'A', always. 'B', be. 'C', closing. ALWAYS BE CLOSING. Always be closing.
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