Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 01/28/2003
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 136 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
In 1984, actor
Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright
Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
Death of a Salesman. A year later,
Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film by German director
Volker Schlondorff.
Hoffman stars as Willy Loman, an aging salesman who has lost his job because of encroaching senility. Now living on handouts provided by his friend Charley (
Charles Durning), Willy's lifelong delusions of success and greatness awaiting just around the corner for he and his family have been shattered, and he's considering suicide. As he reflects on his life and the failed promise of his sons Biff (
John Malkovich) and Happy (
Stephen Lang), Willy finally confronts some unpleasant truths about both sons, particularly Biff, a one-time athlete who has become a kleptomaniac. One of the best of the many filmed versions of
Miller's seminal work,
Death of a Salesman (1985) won several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy for
Hoffman.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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