Director: James Foley
Glengarry Glen Ross has lost little of its luster since I last viewed it four years ago. A tale of four real estate salesmen in competition to keep their jobs, using every sales deception imaginable, with the least ethical path usually winning out. It's also an acting clinic - watching these great actors alternately squirm and bluster, wince and connive.
Writer David Mamet tries to show the pitfalls of wrapping up one's identity in one's job - for if a person like this is no longer good at their job, what are they? Lemmon's Shelley Levene, who is at points confused, scared, confident, triumphant, pleading, and wheedling, manages to state this central point without saying it.
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