Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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Daughters of the Dust

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Daughters of the Dust." A film that portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. Winner of Cinematography at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 29, 1992

Running Time: 100 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, Bruce Altman, Jude Ciccolella, Paul Butler

director: James Foley

Story of wheeling and dealing in the real-estate business.

November 20, 2002

Digitally remastered and decked out with commentary and extras, this two-disc, tenth-anniversary edition does full justice to David Mamet's classic take on real-estate con artists. Plays usually don't work onscreen. Too talky and constricted. Not this time. Director James Foley delivers Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winner in high style. Pacino and the late Lemmon take the acting honors. But the whole cast excels, notably Alec Baldwin in a role specially written for the film.

PETER TRAVERS
(November…

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December 8, 2000

Al Pacino's real-estate salesman Ricky Roma slags his manager, John Williamson (Kevin Spacey): "You stupid fucking cunt. I'm talking to you, shithead. . . . Whoever told you you could work with men?"

Ah, the sound of David Mamet -- vulgar, elliptical, tinged with mirth and malice. Mamet's gutter lyricism lit up his 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross (it won a Pulitzer). Now Mamet and director James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet) want to get the urgency of those verbal pyrotechnics onscreen. They don't…

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