Glengarry Glen Ross
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Short description
Glengarry Glen Ross is set in a Chicago real-estate office during a lean stretch for the business. Word comes down from the owners that most of the sales staff will be let go, and that only the top performers will keep their jobs and gain access to the most promising leads. A blunt messenger from the head office, Blake, delivers the news and sets up a contest: the best salesman wins a Cadillac, the runner-up gets a set of knives, and everyone else is dismissed. The salesmen react in different ways, turning to pressure tactics, deception and scheming against each other as they chase whatever deals they can close. The theft of valuable lead cards sharpens the suspicion among them.
James Foley directed the film, the third of ten features listed in his filmography, following At Close Range and Who's That Girl and preceding Fear. David Mamet wrote the screenplay. Al Pacino plays Ricky Roma, Jack Lemmon plays Shelley Levene, Alec Baldwin plays Blake, and Alan Arkin, Ed Harris and Kevin Spacey appear among the twenty credited cast members.
Made for about 13 million dollars, the film took in roughly 11 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.6 out of 10 across some 126,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.3 out of 10 from a much smaller number of votes. The film critics' rating stands at 8.5 out of 10 from 60 reviews, notably higher than either audience score.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rehearsals took three weeks, and filming took 39 days. Many scenes were shot in the first take. Almost everything was filmed in the order it appeared in the script.
- No auditions were held for any of the roles in the film. Each actor was offered a role directly by the film's creators.
- Almost immediately after its release, the film began to be used in sales training, and many phrases from it became slogans and were frequently quoted.
- The largest expense was creating the sound of rain, which drums throughout the first half of the film.
- The film is based on a play by David Mamet.
- On days when certain cast members weren't directly involved in filming, they would still come to the set to watch others perform.
- During rehearsals, James Foley instructed the actors to play out scenes that remained off-screen. For example, Jack Lemmon and Ed Harris acted out the scene in which Moss forces Levin to rob the office, while Al Pacino and Jonathan Pryce played the scene in which Ling, at Roma's insistence, invests in land.
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