Rating: Summary: This will be a classic! Review: Great movie for those are examining their life. This movie engaged me from the start, and I watched it through the credits. Most will be able to associate the characters with someone in there own life, they are well developed. I laughed for the first hour and then choked back the tears in the end. I think Danny DeVito does a closing speech here that rivals the "You can't handle the truth" speech by Jack Nicholson in A FEW GOOD MEN. I will watch this one many times!
Rating: Summary: Big surprise Review: Watched in awe for the entire 89min of the movie. Some of the best acting i've ever seen. You have to listen to the music during the end credits "sunscreen remix" they fit together perfectly and somewhat summarizes what happened and the conclusions you may need to draw and maybe, just maybe what YOU should do differently with life.
Rating: Summary: The king of sales! Review: If you are in sales, this movie will show every nook and crany of your existance. The highs and the lows. The tradeshows in god-forsaken towns. The big kill and the lonely life. You are going to love this film. It's a cult classic with everyone I know in business. We even call each other by the names we associate with in the movie. New to business? Get it and learn!
Rating: Summary: Selling 101 meets lessons on life Review: I'm not a big movie fan but I have to say this has become one of my classics. Having come from a sales background, I thoroughly enjoyed the dialouge and many sales errors commited by Bob. Larry's rendition of how to handle a dishonest buyer was perfect. My favorite scene is at the end when Phil says you gain character when you realize your regrets. Pick them up, move on... enjoy eating humble pie.
Rating: Summary: Play like - But NOT for most Review: This movie was a shock to me - in that I watched it and watched it. I loved it! It reminded me of a small-town play with 2 great actors (Spacey and DeVito) and one average Facinelli. This movie shows exactly how someone with a strong religious convictions (Facinelli) interacts with 2 people with strong work convictions. I personally have been in this situation many times and can relate to this movie. However, this movie is deep in meaning, short on action scenes and short on mind-numbing dribble. You must have an education to respect this movie and you must have an appreciation of great preformances to appreciate this movie and especially Spacey's Oscar-level performance.
Rating: Summary: The Big Kahuna Review: This is a movie about life as a salesman. Although it is only 90 minutes long this move covers life itself, and it is super. Any college grad should watch this movie two or three time from each characters perspective, you will get alot out of this film. This movie will some be gone from view, it was too short and to focused on one subject but it sure did that subject justice. Let's do some buzzziness!!
Rating: Summary: Emotionally powerful Review: Many people complain about this movie because there is "not enough action and too much talk." If that's what you're looking for buy a "Lethal Weapon" movie. However, if you want to revel in brilliant performances and a devastating picture of desperation and regret, you will find this film haunting you for days. Perhaps you have to be of a certain age to fully appreciate what DeVito and Spacey are going through. The young Facinelli just doesn't get it and I have a feeling that many young people will not. As DeVito says in his brilliant "speech" to Facinelli toward the end of the movie, until you have lived long enough to realize the disappointments and regrets that life inevitably hands out to us if we live long enough, "you can only expect to go so far." I have watched this movie several times and never fail to emerge from its spell and say, "Yes, that's it exactly."
Rating: Summary: the big picture in a little movie Review: Just sitting around on a saturday afternoon, waiting for six-thirty when we go out, Mary, Mike and I, to visit some friends down the road. Tuned this movie in, midway. Looked interesting. The silioquoy delivered by mister divito fifteen minutes later is among the best things i've ever, ever seen. Whether you're selling lubricants, or buddha, or jesus --- it's all the same, but what and where is CHARACTER, guts, honesty, balls....? is there love in your heart? is courage part of you? this is among the greatest scenes ever made. jesus, gautama, lao-tsu and me, we all bless this film, though it might be i'm the only of these who've seen it. This film is a blessing, and a bendiction, and for some maybe an epiphany. Truths well expressed is the best thing one can say about any theatrical art --- this little film scores aces in terms of truths well expressed. Five stars from my soul. I love this little movie..... i am greybird, an old fart in the arizona desert, enjoying many things, this great littel movie among them ....
Rating: Summary: A quiet, thought provoking film Review: I caught this accidentally on cable the other night, just as it was starting. It completely blew me away! The film is very true to the idea of a play - just three characters - Larry, Phil, and Bob. Just one set - a nondescript hotel room in Witchita, Kansas. No explosions, no special effects, no huge Hollywood budget - but lots of wonderful dialogue and though provoking character studies. So much dialogue, in fact, that you'll have to see it a few times just to "catch" it all. But don't worry - you won't mind watching it a few times. Spacey is excellent, as always. DeVito is excellent. And even Facinelli (who I didn't recognize) put in a good performance.
Rating: Summary: NOT FOR ANY TASTE, BUT VERY GOOD Review: Spacey acts brilliantly as always. Amazing. The dialogues are clever and important. But one cannot leave behind the plain fact that sometimes the story may get a little bit boring, because there isn't exactly a history, juss the perception of a history. Anyway, the movie keeps you at the edge of your seat watching the dialogues between Spacey and De Vito ( and the new boy ).
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