Review of Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) by Joe C — 04 Jan 2015
You think the dynamic at your company is brutal? Try swimming with the sharks of Glengarry Glen Ross, a pitch-black, deeply profane case study in how quickly an office will disintegrate when a sales team is told that it's about to enter a competition, and everyone who winds up lower than second place is going to lose his job.
The result, as you might expect, is a bile-drenched free-for-all, brilliantly scripted by David Mamet (adapting his own Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play) and brought to painful life by an ace cast that included Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, and Al Pacino.
Mamet could easily have coasted on this project, merely replicating the play's acidic dialogue. Instead, he added a pivotal new scene for a character not in the original, Blake, that raised the story's stakes even further, to create the best anti-sales pitch of the 90s.
This review of Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) was written by Joe C on 04 Jan 2015.
Glengarry Glen Ross has generally received very positive reviews.
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