Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) on Netflix
Blake arrives at a real estate office with a contest: only the top two closers keep their jobs. Levene, a once-successful salesman with a daughter in the hospital, wants the Glengarry leads.
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Plot summary
Four salesmen at a real estate firm work leads that Williamson, the office manager, rations out, and many of those names cannot afford land or have no interest in it. Blake, a top salesman sent by the firm, delivers a warning: within one week only the two men with the most closings will stay, and they alone will get the promising Glengarry Highlands leads. Shelley Levene, a once-successful salesman in a long slump, has a daughter in the hospital; he asks Williamson to sell him prime leads, but Williamson wants cash first. Dave Moss proposes to George Aaronow that they take the leads and sell them to a rival agency. Aaronow refuses. Ricky Roma, the strongest closer, sits down at a bar with James Lingk, a meek, middle-aged man he means to size up.
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- Barry Rohrssenas Assistant Detective (as Barry Rossen)
- Leigh Frenchas Additional Voices (voice)
- Skipp Lynchas Telephone Service Man (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
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- Because of the film's modest budget, many of the actors took significant pay cuts: Pacino cut his per-movie price from $6 million to $1.5 million, Lemmon was paid $1 million, and Baldwin received $250,000.
- During production, producers Tokofsky and Zupnik fell out over money and credit: Tokofsky sued to strip Zupnik of his producer's credit and share of the fee, while Zupnik, who said he had personally invested $2 million of the budget, countersued and claimed Tokofsky had been fired for embezzlement.
- By March 1991, Tokofsky had to contact Baldwin and beg him to reconsider doing the film; Baldwin's character Blake was then written specifically for the actor and for the film, and does not appear in the play at all.
- Baldwin had been earmarked to play the Richard Roma role vacated by Pacino, and reportedly left the project over a contract disagreement; the real reason was that Pacino was still being considered for Roma and would be cast over Baldwin.
- Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Joe Mantegna all expressed interest in the film; Mantegna had been in the original Broadway cast and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1985 for his portrayal of Roma.
- In 2005, Baldwin played Winter's Breath, a head elf sent by Santa Claus, in a Saturday Night Live Christmas parody of the "Coffee is for closers" scene, and his character in the 2017 film The Boss Baby says "Cookies are for closers".
