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Always Be Closing!
Most people think of explosions, car chases and action/adventure films as guy movies. Well, maybe, but those are for boys. There's no car chase in this movie, no deaths and no guns. But it manages to hold your attention while telling its story of real estate salesmen. This is the quintessential guy movie. This screen adaptation of David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play is incredibly stagebound, which was a stroke of genius: thus, the fast-paced dialogue and the desperate, macho facades of the characters become, and stay, the focus. This allows the amazing talents of the cast to flourish. Pacino and Lemmon are untouchable. Ed Harris is outstanding. Having just the four main characters makes the whole thing seem oddly forced at times. Baldwin's slick delivery of his ball-busting speech to the three underachieving salesmen, is a scene to remember. Highly recommended.

Drama and desperation
I just find it so amazing that a film with relatively no action can be so powerful and affecting.
"Glengarry Glen Ross" tells the story of real estate salesmen who try everything to close a deal despite poor leads and treats from higher-ups. How far will they go to stay alive in their business? Watch and see as a riveting and sometimes sad story unfolds.
One couldn't have asked for a better cast (greats like Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris and Al Pacino), and the interactions between them are gritty and sharp. Heck, Alec Baldwin is only in the movie for a few minutes and even he manages to make a huge impression on the audience!
Fans of the film can now rejoice that this wonderful movie can now be seen with the picture quality and sound that only DVD can offer. Be sure to look for an "extra special" feature on the second disc: watch the clip of Kevin Spacey on "Inside the Actors Studio" as he and a student reinact a memorable "Glengarry" scene.
All in all, the film is brilliant in every sense of the word. It's well-written, well-directed, well-casted, et cetera. After viewing it, I only had one question. Where were the Oscars???

Sizzling, Intense, Brilliant.
I bought this movie because Alec Baldwin (one of my favorite actors) is in it. I'd never seen it before--wasn't interested when it first came out in theatres, had never even seen the play on stage--but I'd heard Baldwin was brilliant in it, so I bought it.

Now I'm kicking myself for never having seen it on the big screen. And I've seen it at least a dozen times since buying it.

The story, if you've read any reviews, you already know: Four guys in a real estate office (Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, and Al Pacino) are in a sales contest from "Mitch and Murray", the big bosses from downtown. As the slick-suited real estate millionaire sent to motivate the sales force (Baldwin, in a role written expressly for the film) explains, "First prize is a Cadillac.[...]Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired." With such motivation complete, Office Manager Williamson (Kevin Spacey, in his first big role) hands out the night's allotment sales leads, and they're pure drek...driving the men to various stages of desperation to ensure they don't fall off the sales board.

That's the story. What makes this movie work is the outstanding performances. Pacino as office hot-shot Ricky Roma got the film's only Oscar nod for acting, but Jack Lemmon's performance as Shelley "The Machine" Levine would have been a better choice. Levine hasn't had a sale in months, and has lost his edge; his scene bargaining with Williamson for a better lead capsulizes Levine's frustration and fears perfectly. Just to watch Lemmon, a wondrous actor, bring every nuance of this character to life is fascinating.

As for the reason I bought this in the first place, Alec Baldwin? He's magnificent. You'll forget he's only in one scene; his character's threats and emotional manipulation swirl through every scene in the film. His profanity-laced motivational speech is searing; you can feel every man in the room cringe as he verbally emasculates them in the name of generating more sales for the unseen Mitch and Murray. And the film's most quotable lines come from him: "Put that coffee down! Coffee is for closers." "What's my name? F--k you, that's my name! You know why? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here, and I drove a $80,000 BMW. THAT'S my name." "A-B-C--Always Be Closing. Always Be Closing. ALWAYS BE CLOSING!"

Enough talking. See the movie.

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