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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381140620
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 28, 2003
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 4571
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 15, 1985
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Description:
Willy Loman has spent his entire life believing he and his family are bound for greatness. Struggling day to day as a traveling salesman, Willy begins to lose touch with reality and drifts away into the past. Meanwhile his family, including wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy, attempts to cope with Willy's self-destruction and the still-lingering ghosts of the past. Arthur Miller's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning play is brought to the screen with a powerhouse performance by Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman, who earned Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for this role. The stellar supporting cast features Kate Reid, Charles Durning, Stephen Lang, and in his first breakout role, John Malkovich as Biff, all guided by internationally-acclaimed director Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum) and a haunting score by legendary composer Alex North (Spartacus).
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German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff's 1985 production of ArthurMiller's most famousplay appeared squarely and quite hauntingly in the middle of the go-go economy of theReagan-Bush years. Miller's story, set during the post-war boom period of the late '40s,concerns an aging, traveling salesman named Willy Loman (Dustin Hoffman), whodespairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in aheated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of anAmerica that loves and admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace. But thereality is far more pitiable than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion andcontradictions is found in his two sons, one (Stephen Lang) a ne'er-do-well gliding oninherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other (John Malkovich) a mousy, retiringsort unable to reconcile--or forgive--the difference between his father's desperateimpersonation of success and the truth. Schlondorff's remarkable cast explores Miller'srich subtext to great effect, though Hoffman--despite giving us a new model of Willy tocontrast with Lee J. Cobb's definitive portrayal a generation before--is a bit insect-like andshrill in his approach. Malkovich, Lang, and Kate Reid (as Willy's long-suffering wife) areperfect, however, and the production is atmospheric and strong. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - A piece of art
Death of a salesman is one of the best samples of the american drama that reflects the real life of the dream that is not even reached by american people.
I love Dustin Huffman play but all the characters are amazingly builded which make the sense of being at the teather.
Rating: - Obviously a collective dvd.
Death of a salesman is the show, which is being put on somewhere in the world almost every day of the year. It's so multi-dynamic and close to real life that it can hurt you for real. Beside the genius playwriting, this movie is an excellent performance of that. Dusting Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang they all have done superb job portraying their characters. Although I am not into literature, capable enough to pay homage for a play like this one, I for certainly recommend this movie ... Read More
Rating: - This is an utterly classic dramatic work
Sparse sets set-up the huge dramatic energy of this deceivingly simple story.Every actor and actress is outstanding and
the power, range, and depth of the performance is incredible.
Bristling with raw force, the drama digs through the layers
of mid-america near mid-century, creating a powerful historical
testament.The stars were aligned for Miller, Hoffman, Malkovic and the rest for this dynamic theatre.Pathos.
Rating: - Searing drama
Dustin Hoffman is Willy Loman, the salesman who's come to the end of his rope as the illusions he's always believed in come crashing down on him. This was filmed originally for TV off the stage, with no attempt to make it into a "movie." It's a very great play, done extremely well here. I think I still might like the 1951 version with Frederic March as Loman a tad better, but Hoffman adds another feather to his cap. (Neither March nor Hoffman can top Lee J. Cobb's portrayal of Willy in the original 1949 ... Read More
Rating: - Story about a Salesman who Travels but...Never Arrives
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This movie is about hard-working, traveling salesman Willy Loman (Dustin Hoffman), a man whose life has become a permanent nervous breakdown.He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff (John Malkovich) and "Happy" (Stephen Lang) don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential.His wife (Kate Reid) still loves him but she is caught up in a state of"bitter helplessness."Willy, now in his sixties, wonders what went wrong (after all, his dream ... Read More
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