Glengarry Glen Ross DVD

Advantages: Great cast and dialogue
Disadvantages: Some may find the story too basic

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Set within a twenty-four hour period, the focus of the film is four real estate salesmen. They work out of a dwindling company’s office, making phone calls and house visits to try and earn their commission. The office manager, Williamson (Kevin Spacey), gives each of them two ‘leads’ a day (paid for customer contact details, from when you either do or don’t tick that box in the small print) from which they must try and ...
...some of the recently purchased Glengarry leads. What follows is a snapshot of the American dream gone wrong as these men struggle for a wage and their self respect. We follow them through the evening and into the following day when it’s found the office has been burgled at some point during the night. The story is basic, but perfectly placed, allowing for lots of sparkling dialogue and character development. Adapted by David Mamet from his own award ... Read review

Advantages: Great cast, some great performances
Disadvantages: Short, fast paced, particular tatse

Wow! What a cast, with the likes of Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Baldwin, Harris you would expect an awful lot from this film. That's one of the biggest flaws in this film really, the expectation is so great, it was impossible to live up to it. The plot: Set in a the real-estate business, the pressure is high. If you dont close the deal, you dont get the pay. That's the whole emphasis of this film, seeing the lengths these businessmen/con-artists will ...
...for Jack Lemmon's character Shelley who has gone way past his prime and is being over-shadowed by the young guns, led by Al Pacino (Ricky Roma). What would you do to earn a living? This is the sort of thought-provoking questions that this film raises. It's a dark, tense film set maily in a small office, so don't expect any SFX cos you wont get them, this film is all about character development and storyline. You really do begin to relate to the ... Read review

Advantages: great actors,terrific dialogues
Disadvantages: it is not for everyone

...wrote the play version of glengarry glen ross in 1984,and he turned it into a screen play in 1992.The play won him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 and got great reviews all over the world.Mamet himself used to work in a real estate office,and of course this experience was very helpful for the writing of this play,since its main set is a real estate office and its characters are corrupt salesmen caught up in the rituals of their business. GGR ...
...concern is male pressure.The film has quite a lot of differences from the play.Its structure is not theatrical anymore,its more a cinematic structure.Mamet adapted his play,making some significant changes in the plot,the most important of which is,of course,the addition of another character,who is not even mentioned in the play.That character is Blake,and he is played in the film by Alec Baldwin,in (in my opinion) his best performance ever. The cast ... Read review