Just watched "Glengerry Glen Ross" on TCM. Seen it before...

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and decided to watch it again. Just have to say it's absolutely brilliant. The dialogue, my God (a lot of cursing mind you) but it has to be one-in-a-million writing. Who can even think up those lines?

And the cast is teriffic, especially Al Pacino, Jack Lemon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin.

if you get a chance, watch it again.

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1. A favorite of mine as well.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. A brilliant play and film

Great satire of 80s greed. Unfortunately David Mamet turned into a crazy right winger in the 2000s (or at least became more obvious about it)

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3. Oh, I didn't know that about his politics.

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Sad. Wonder if he's stlll feeling all maga now that trump is an obvious crook and in grave legal danger.

[denbot]

4. Put the coffee down!

That movie was canon to us sales folk back in the day.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. Alec Baldwin's best performance bands down

Barely 5 minutes and he owns that movie. One of Jack Lennon’s best as well.

[Auggie]

6. Love this film

[elleng]

7. Missed it, but will look for rerun.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Second prize, a set of steak knives.

[Frasier Balzov]

9. I wonder if the Alec Baldwin part has been added to the play.

That defining part depicting the pressure of working in sales was written especially for him and especially for the film version.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. I thought it was one of the worst movies ever.

The dialogue is nearly incomprehensible. I don't recall much of a plot, unless constant swearing is somehow a plot.

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11. Ok. Everyone has an opinion.

You're the only one on this board who doesn't recognize the movie as a great piece of film making.

Think about that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Maybe I'm the only one

who has an independent opinion about things. And given that all of nine different people here have posted, I'm going to make a guess that I'm not the only one here who didn't care for it.

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13. Like I said, everyone has an opinion...

and yours is certainly an outlier on this film.