Death of a Salesman/ Private Conversations
by Volker Schl?ndorff, Christian Blackwood
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Actor: Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Volker Schl?ndorffDirector: Christian Blackwood, Volker Schl?ndorff
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Arthur Miller
Producer: Christian Blackwood
Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Producer: Michael Nozik
Producer: Nellie Nugiel
Producer: Robert F. Colesberry
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Death of a Salesman/ Private Conversations
Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Though John Malkovich looks a little too old, and I still maintain that Brian Dennehy made a better Willy Loman, this filmed version of the mid-80s revival of Death of a Salesman is still well-worth recommending on the strength of Miller's writing and the caliber of the acting.
Summary of Death of a Salesman/ Private Conversations
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).German filmmaker Volker Schl?ndorff's 1985 production of Arthur Miller's most famous play appeared squarely and quite hauntingly in the middle of the go-go economy of the Reagan-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), who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that loves and admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace. But the reality is far more pitiable than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions is found in his two sons, one (Stephen Lang) a ne'er-do-well gliding on inherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other (John Malkovich) a mousy, retiring sort unable to reconcile--or forgive--the difference between his father's desperate impersonation of success and the truth. Schlondorff's remarkable cast explores Miller's rich subtext to great effect, though Hoffman--despite giving us a new model of Willy to contrast with Lee?J. Cobb's definitive portrayal a generation before--is a bit insect-like and shrill in his approach. Malkovich, Lang, and Kate Reid (as Willy's long-suffering wife) are perfect, however, and the production is atmospheric and strong. --Tom Keogh
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