Glengarry Glen Ross | 
 enlarge | Director: James Foley
Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Live, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 13286
UPC: 012236114505
EAN: 0012236114505
ASIN: B00005JKG9
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 1992
Release Date: November 19, 2002
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Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to the singular genius of playwright-screenwriter David Mamet, who updated his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for this all-star screen adaptation. The material is not inherently cinematic, so the movie's greatest asset is Mamet's peerless dialogue and the assembly of a once-in-a-lifetime cast led by Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin (the last in a role Mamet created especially for the film). Often regarded as a critique of the Reagan administration's impact on the American economy, the play and film focus on a competitive group of real estate salesmen who've gone from feast to famine in a market gone cold. When an executive "motivator" (Alec Baldwin) demands a sales contest among the agents in the cramped office, the stakes are critically high: any agent who fails to meet his quota of sales "leads" (i.e., potential buyers) will lose his job. This intense ultimatum is a boon for the office superstar (Pacino), but a once-successful salesman (Lemmon) now finds himself clinging nervously to faded glory. Political and personal rivalries erupt under pressure when the other agents (Alan Arkin, Ed Harris) suspect the office manager (Kevin Spacey) of foul play. This cauldron of anxiety, tension, and sheer desperation provides fertile soil for Mamet's scathingly rich dialogue, which is like rocket fuel for some of the greatest actors of our time. Pacino won an Oscar nomination for his volatile performance, but it's Lemmon who's the standout, doing some of the best work of his distinguished career. Director James Foley shapes Mamet's play into a stylish, intensely focused film that will stand for decades as a testament to its brilliant writer and cast. --Jeff Shannon
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A group of sleazy real estate men face a high-pressure stress as they are put in danger of getting the ax by their hard-driving bosses.System Requirements:Starring: Al Pacino Alan Arkin Alec Baldwin Ed Harris Jack Lemmon and Kevin Spacey. Directed By: James Foley. Running Time: 100 Min. Color. This film is presented in both "Widescreen" and "Standard" formats. Copyright 2002 Artisan Entertainment.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012236114505 Manufacturer No: 13286
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 Superb - for the connoisseur June 17, 2008
This is a true classic. Acting at it's best. Need to watch it more than once to fully appreciate it. I know some people may say after watching it the first time, it is boring but after viewing the second and third time all the nuances are revealed. The interplay between Pacino, Harris, Spacey, Lemmon, Arkin, Baldwin, Pryce......all superb. Even the supporting cast is top notch. Check out Jude Ciccolella (24) as the cop. If you thought you were in a rat-race, just look at these guys. Be warned a lot of profanity, including the dread C-word, but doesn't use it for shock value, just to illustrate what these guys go through in the pressure cooker environment. Mamet's screenplay is excellent..only difference between the film and play is Baldwin's character, which in my opinion is the best acting he's ever done. Buy it now. I just wish they will release it on Blu-Ray.
glengarry/ great movie June 15, 2008
this is a true classic in movie/play form acting ,,,a david mamet pulizer
prize-winning play,,this has all the drama & entertainment you could ask
for,,,these battling real estate sales man go head to head ,cut throut,,
to get these lead's for the big sale's,,,it takes place mainly in the
office to where it all leads to an amazing climax,,,,with actors like
jack lemmon,alec baldwin,ed harris,kevin spacey,alan arkin,al pacino &
jonathan pryce ,,,this is a no brainer a must
NEWSFLASH: Salesmen are whores! THIS IS NEEDED VIEWING IN OUR SUBPRIME CRISIS June 7, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I mean, watch Pacino con the john in the Chinese restaurant bar, pure drinks and charm and chat and seduction from his wife at home. This is salesmanship.
Capitalism turns us all in to sharks and thieves and liars and greedy individuals incapable of honesty and cooperation and community, into whores and assassins.
See the subprime crisis, bringing down at last the whole bushanomic house of cards.
Enron has won. The death of Enron was the canary in the cage. The Silverado Savings and Loan scandal only rewarded Neil Bush with a fortune. We did not make our economic system more just and honest and open and fair. We legislated greater secrecy and legitimized our thievery.
And now we pay the piper. Subprime deceptions bring down the whole house of cards. The USA is no longer a leading economic indicator; the tail shall now wag the failing dog, violently.
This film is metonymy for the entire moral and ethical and economic failure. This film is brilliant. This film must be seen as our ship of state sinks, as the band still plays on this Titanic. See this film.
This Tenth Anniversary Special Edition contains two disks. One disk has widescreen; the second disk has "full screen" which is best avoided. Together the two disks have enough extras to keep any film buff happy for days, for years. Disk one includes a brilliant and long tribute to Jack Lemmon, including words from his son and from his golf partner, from the director and from himself. It is enough to make you seek out other Lemmon films you have forgotten, including Save the Tiger, Missing, The China Syndrome (Special Edition), Days of Wine and Roses, Long Day's Journey Into Night or even the hilarious and tragic Bell, Book and Candle in which the grey and grim vampire businessmen, who reach their inevitable self-destruction in this film, conquer once colorful New York, rendering delightful witches zombie housewives unquestionably servicing their economic immoralties.
The extras on this two disk set also included an excellent interview with Alex Baldwin, and Mr. Arkin. Film students will appreciate the long commentaries by the Spanish cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia, forced to produce compelling camera work within the confines of a crowded office space, evocative of Rojo Amanecer, and under heavy rain. This powerful camera work in itself prohibits the watching of the "full screen" version as so much visual information, composition and balance is missing. Gratefully disk one here presents the widescreen version as meant to be seen.
These commentaries (which do no accompany as usual a full presentation of the movie, but have excerpts as background, a rather frustrating experience as we long to see Pacino in his full glorious performance, not as wallpaper) also include a rather long and unique speech by the production designer, of compelling interest most to the student of film, and of New York. The report of the fire on set due to the constant rain and the hot lighting cables provides some interest at least.
There is no commentary from Pacino; for this we might turn to his Pacino: An Actor's Vision (Chinese Coffee / Looking for Richard / The Local Stigmatic) which is valuable for his take on Shakespeare's Richard III. Nevertheless, the generous extras also include cast and staff bio's, including a very substantial and comprehensive multi-page report on Al and the rest. Please see as well his excellent William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice with Jeremy Irons.
The cast is brilliant and the best that can be had, with Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, and Ed Harris as well as Kevin Spacey. Ed Harris of course may now be known through the extras on his great movie Walker - Criterion Collection, as well as seen in the revealing glimpse of returning vets Jacknife, his personal project on Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island, A History of Violence (New Line Platinum Series), and hundreds of other Hollywood productions such as The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition).
You also find long interviews with salesmen, from Fuller Brush to real estate, and saleswomen, and you wonder how and why we ever allow them to deceive us so willingly. We are a nation of suckers. There is also an interesting if very low budget documentary on a platitude pronouncing used car, flea market, used furniture impresario, great for the weird old haircuts is little else. Now we have that antique roadshow selling us the same junk.
My only problem with this movie is the editing, and the excessive quick cuts which leave me seasick. I have been spoiled by Director Alex Cox's excellent and effective master shot technique which keeps the camera running for the full ten minutes the technology permits, and is shown to good effect in his Highway Patrolman and Revengers Tragedy as well as in embryonic form in the Walker - Criterion Collection mentioned above. As this Glengarry Glen Ross was originally a play, holding the camera without cuts, and with two characters seated together in the compelling and real and potent dialogue would have been more effective than swinging our perspective violently from talking head to talking head in quick and constant cuts, destroying the deep rhythm of the percussive talk. At such moments turn up the sound and close your eyes to avoid vertigo.
Otherwise excellent, and a legend for our disastrous times. This is the disaster movie to end all disaster movies, and how our nation collapses upon itself now.
See this film with understanding. See this film. The Cocoanuts [Groucho Marx and Harpo Marx], one of the first full length movie comedies, also had to do with selling swamp land in Florida, as Groucho promised: "And you can get Stucco! Boy, can you get Stucco!" See this last film still selling swampland and still getting us stucco.
 Al Pacino's performance the stuff of cinematic wet dreams. May 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon star in this hugely memorable film. Oh, and some guy named Al Pacino as well. Glengarry Glen Ross has become the type of film that slowly has sprung forth legend and arguably some of the most memorable lines in movie history, most notably Alec Baldwin's, "Put that coffee DOWN! Coffee's for closers!"
The plot (based on David Mamet's award winning play) deals with a number of real estate salesman and a day at the office that acts as a microcosm of what drives them. With pressure from the higher-ups downtown to close some deals, some will rise to the challenge while others will crumble under its avalanche.
Aside from the sub-two hundred f-bombs throughout the film, I enjoyed GGR, and honestly, found the film to suffice all my "angst against The Man" needs when I saw it a few years ago on TV. Al Pacino shines brightly as his character's lines flow with ferocious splendor throughout the film, with particular emphasis on the last fifteen minutes of the film when he proceeds to needle Ed Harris' character with a systematic verbal bout that made me stand up and applaud with cathartic approval. A very powerful film that will doubtlessly make your day a little more fun for having watched it.
The Ultimate Sales Movie!! March 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If your in sales, then you have to get this movie. If your in management and you have people under you, then get this movie. The concept of the script is well written and the actors are great. Alec Baldwin was incredible in this movie. He has passion, wit, confidence and very inspiring. I am in sales and this said it all...greed, money, survival, and doing what is right. Bravo! Bravo!
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