Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Glengarry Glen Ross
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Foley
Screenplay by	David Mamet
Based on	Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Produced by	Jerry Tokofsky Stanley R. Zupnik
Starring	Al Pacino Jack Lemmon Alec Baldwin Ed Harris Alan Arkin Kevin Spacey Jonathan Pryce
Cinematography	Juan Ruiz Anchía
Edited by	Howard Smith
Music by	James Newton Howard
Production company	Zupnik Enterprises
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date	October 2, 1992 (1992-10-02)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12.5 million[1]
Box office	$10.7 million (North America)[2]

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 American drama film directed by James Foley and written by David Mamet, based on his 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen, and their increasing desperation when the corporate office sends a motivational trainer with the threat that all but the top two salesmen will be fired within one week.

Like the play, the film was notorious for its use of profanity, leading the cast to refer to the film jokingly as "Death of a Fuckin' Salesman".^[3] The title of the film comes from the names of two of the real estate developments being peddled by the salesmen characters: Glengarry Highlands and Glen Ross Farms.

The film was critically acclaimed and is widely considered one of the best films of the 1990s. The world premiere was held at the 49th Venice Film Festival, where Jack Lemmon was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. Al Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Yet, the film was a box office failure for grossing $10.7 million in North America against a $12.5 million budget. It has since become a cult classic.