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- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 52 m
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 52 m
Summary A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Directed By: Barry Levinson
Written By: Barry Levinson
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 52 m
- 1987
- R
- Buena Vista Distribution Company
- 1 h 52 m
Tin Men
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Summary A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Directed By: Barry Levinson
Written By: Barry Levinson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
75
77% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
23% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Levinson invests his script with a richness of theme that helps make it a comedy classic.
The improbable tale of a pair of feuding aluminum siding salesmen, Tin Men winds up as bountiful comedy material in the skillful hands of writer-director Barry Levinson. Film is packed with laughs, thanks to taut scripting and superb character depictions by Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and a fascinating troupe of sidekicks.
The year's most pungently offbeat comedy and the most improbable love story since King Kong sighted Fay Wray.
The film is a savage but funny, unsparing but oddly kindly, examination of a hell-bent-for-a-bigger-bank-account brand of behavior that was celebrated in the fifties, tolerated in the early sixties, rejected in the late sixties, tolerated again in the seventies, and is once again being celebrated in the eighties. [06 Mar 1987]
Because Tin Men is based on fundamental truth, it is able to be funny even in some of its quieter moments.
The salesmen's scams are entertaining, but their spritzing is too tame, and the action is prolonged with limp, wavering scenes. Levinson wants to be on the humane side of every issue, The best work is done by the supporting players.
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