Home > Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross is the title of a 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Mamet, which he later adapted into a screenplay for the 1992 movie of the same title. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical and/or illegal acts (from lies and flattery to bribery, threats and intimidation to burglary) in order to sell undesirable real estate to unwilling prospective buyers ("leads").
The film differs from the play mainly with the insertion of a single scene written by Mamet. The scene involves a character named Blake, played by Alec Baldwin, who gives the main characters a more immediate motivation for selling real estate.
The film also differs in location. While references to the Chicago area remain intact throughout, the credits list it having been filmed "on location" in New York City. As such, there are some scenes which do refer to New York City, such as the opening scene, in which the pay phone Shelly Levene uses clearly reads "New York". Also, George Aaronow comments to Shelly, "I had a woman in White Plains on the hook ...," an obvious reference to White Plains, New York.
See also: Richard Roma ( Al PacinoAl Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film actor. He was born Alfred James Pacino in the The Bronx, New York, the son of Salvatore and Rose Pacino. His parents divorced while Pacino was still a child. He is of Sicilian heritage; Pacino's maternal)
External links
|
| Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about .
|
1992 films 1993 films
