Glengarry Glen Ross [Collector's Edition] [Blu-ray]

Overview

David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents work their same tired leads, until one hatches a scheme to burglarize the office, steal the leads, and sell them to a rival. Featuring a cast that includes Al Pacino as the office's sales leader, Jack Lemmon as an elderly loser, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris as frustrated salesmen, Kevin Spacey as the harassed office manager, and Jonathan Pryce as a client, Glengarry Glen Ross is, at its core, a character study about a group of men whose time has passed.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/02/2020
UPC:	0826663168143
Original Release:	1992
Rating:	R
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	5,073

Special Features

New 4K Transfer from the original camera negative; New A Conversation with Director James Foley; New "God Bless Ricky Roma" - Actor Joe Mantegna Remembers Working with David Mamet; Audio Commentary with James Foley; Audio Commentary with Jack Lemmon; A.B.C. "Always Be Closing"; Magic Time: A Tribute To Jack Lemmon

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Al Pacino	Ricky Roma
Jack Lemmon	Shelley Levine
Alec Baldwin	Blake
Ed Harris	Dave Moss
Alan Arkin	George Aaronow
Kevin Spacey	John Williamson
Jonathan Pryce	James Lingk
Bruce Altman	Spannel
Jude Ciccolella	Detective
Paul Butler	Policeman
Lori Chinn	Coat Check Girl
Neal Jones	Man in Donut Shop
James Howard	Composer

Technical Credits

David Mamet

James Foley	Director
Joe Caracciolo Jr.	Executive Producer
Mike Maggi	Special Effects
Jerry Tokofsky	Producer
Stanley R. Zupnik	Producer
David Mamet	Screenwriter,Playwright
Joseph Caracciolo	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Asking David Mamet to improve on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play sounds like a fairly tall order. However, that's precisely what the writer did with 1993's big-screen adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross, an unrelenting tale of social Darwinism involving a quartet of doomed real estate shysters desperately searching for the next sale. For the screenplay, Mamet wisely added the character Blake (Alec Baldwin), a shark from the firm's downtown office, who succinctly conveys the pressure and desperation endured by the salesmen. The role could well be the finest ten minutes of Baldwin's career, an epithet-laced tirade during which he insults the sales team so mercilessly that one wonders how they'll ever recover. The film is also blessed with one of the finest casts in recent memory. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, and Kevin Spacey -- a crew with five Oscar wins and 18 nominations between them -- masterfully navigate Mamet's rhythmic, rat-a-tat dialogue. (The writer himself once worked as a typist in a Chicago real estate office, and he captures the tragic sound of a floundering sales pitch with brutal perfection.) Some critics have presented Glengarry Glen Ross as little more than a deftly translated stage play, but doing so overlooks the splendid work done by director James Foley. By setting the film on a rainy night, Foley evokes a neo-noir atmosphere in which the men forlornly tote umbrellas from one failed "sit" to the next, crossing wet streets aglow with neon-suffused light. This two-disc set includes an insightful array of extras, including commentaries by Baldwin and Arkin, as well as a clip from The Charlie Rose Show featuring the late Lemmon talking in depth about the production. A strong case can be made for Mamet as the finest screenwriter and playwright of our generation; Glengarry Glen Ross alone makes a compelling argument.

Barnes & Noble - Jeffrey Iorio

Talk is the coin of the realm for salespeople, and this adaptation of David Mamet's play about real estate agents is one of the most densely scripted and verbally rich films ever made. The talk is frank, brutal and often scatalogical; the plot is about surviving in business; the atmosphere is that of a tense locker room. Director James Foley handles all the nuances well, and lets his restless camera create the sensation of movement around a stolid, stagey set. Almost the entire film takes place in one large office. The excellent cast features Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey and Alan Arkin, and they all do yeoman work in this ambitious and unsettling character study about morality, aging, and corruption in a group of mostly over-the-hill white men.

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