| | | Lie. Cheat. Steal. All in a day's work.
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby, English
A riveting tale of desperation and betrayal based on David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, and Kevin Spacey shine in this powerful story set in the world of real estate. Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until their "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.
"All the performances are exceptional." Rita Kempley, The Washington Post
Editor's Note
Times are tough at Premiere Properties. To initiate a little incentive among the sales agents, Blake comes up with a sales program. The winner gets a new Cadillac and the loser gets unemployed.
Plot Summary
A group of real estate salesmen in Chicago vie for the best "leads" at a small firm selling property in "resort" areas, such as Florida and Arizona. When a hotshot executive from the head office arrives and proposes a vicious sales contest, competition gets stiff, and salesmen who have worked a lifetime for the company find their jobs in jeopardy.
| Features | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Cast And Crew Biographies | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Stereo, DTS Surround | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Stereo | | New Interviews | | New Audio Commentary By Director James Foley | | Production Notes | | A.B.C. (Always Be Closing): An Original Documentary Tracing The Psychologicl Intersection Of Fictional And Real Life Salesmen | | Interactive Menus | | Tribute To Jack Lemmon |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Artisan |
| Release Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 11450 | | UPC: 00012236114505 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1993) | | | Al Pacino, Nominee, Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is..." 10/01/1992 p.73New York Times
"...Splendid....A mordantly funny DEATH OF A SALESMAN for the 1990's..." 09/30/1992 p.C15 Entertainment Weekly
"...Tightly wound -- and actually very fine....[Baldwin acts with] reptilian gung-ho..." -- Rating: B 07/19/1996 pp.80-83 Los Angeles Times
"...Mamet is a true magician with streetwise words, a writer who recognizes the poetry hidden in the most scalding language and creates profane dialogue hot enough to suck all the air out of the screen..." 09/30/1992 p.F1 USA Today
"...An indoor actor's movie with visual snap and distinction..." 11/22/2002 p.7E Total Film
"...David Mamet's sales drama is notable for the quantity and quality of its swearing. Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and Al Pacino all have a go..." 07/01/2003 p.137 Uncut
"[With] a fantastic cast who relished the searing scenes of male competitiveness..." 02/01/2005 p.60 Sight and Sound
"[E]xemplary. Foley remains faithful to his source and gives his actors plenty of room to move..." 12/01/2005 p.89 Empire
"Many of the plaudits go, rightly, to Mamet's screenplay....But James Foley's direction is also a key to the film's relentless, restless power." 04/01/2008 p.157 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
Mamet's dialogue has a kind of logic, a cadence, that allows people to arrive in triumph at the ends of sentences we could not possibly have imagined. There is great energy in it. 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. - Roger Ebert
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5 of 5 Classic Cinema Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Eoin from CA
James Foley works wonders with David Mamet's incredible screenplay. Despite a pretty small budget, he assembled an all-star cast led including Pacino and Lemmon.
The story is pretty simple -- four real estate salesmen are given a week to save their jobs by offloading some shady property to the simultaneously maligned and adored leads. Moreover, a new set of high quality leads (the Glengarry leads have arrived in but will only be allocated to sellers). The whole film takes place over one evening (when they receive their ultimatum) and the subsequent morning.
Glengarry Glenross is exquisite for many reasons -- it's part Death of a Salesman, part The Salesman, with a little bit of whodunnit and a lot of drama. All the actors are at the top of their game and there is not a single relationship within the office structure that rings untrue. It's the grim reality of smile and dial, sales calls at unreceptive prospects homes, not making quota, trying to make ends meet and lavish amounts of lying, cheating, backstabbing and betrayal. This is truly classic cinema -- just as essential and important a commentary on the radical change in working and corporate America as Wall Street.
The DVD itself comes with some great bonus material: a Foley commentary, a Jack Lemmon tribute, lots interviews with a real-life real-estate salespeople are included in a short documentary of the sales profession. Was this review helpful?  
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5 of 5 Finally, A Lead Worth Chasing Down!! Saturday, November 16, 2002
Karl Archer from Seattle, WA
There are few movies out there that I have been anxiously awaiting on DVD more than Glengarry Glen Ross. Strange, don't you think? The movie has little to no special effects, no grand explosions or heavy duty action sequences, it is just one of the finest character driven performance pieces that I have ever seen. When I first read the liner notes on what the film was about, I laughed out loud at the stupidity that I'd EVER be interested in watching a film about a bunch of losers bickering in some real estate office...but ten minutes into the picture, you are just so filled up by the intelligent dialogue and the intense and incredible performances that you are hooked right away. In no other picture, will you ever see Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Arkin, Harris, and Baldwin ALL at the top of their game. This film is so rich and flavorful with character and dialogue that you'll need a antacid after the credits roll. BRAVO for finally releasing one of the destined classics on DVD! Was this review helpful?
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