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Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.
Times are tough at Premiere Properties. To initiate a little incentive among the sales agents, Blake comes up with a sales program. The winner gets a new Cadillac and the loser gets unemployed.
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 salesm...
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en, 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.
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Vier medewerkers van een makelaarskantoor krijgen een extra motivatie doordat er een wedstrijd wordt uitgeschreven. De eerste prijs is een Cadillac, de tweede een messenset, en de derde prijs ontslag. Er is geen ruimte voor losers in deze wereld, alleen echte "closers" zullen de goede deals binnen slepen. De druk om te presteren is erg hoog, helemaal wanneer er een overval wordt gepleegd die gevolgen heeft voor alle deelnemers.
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