Joey gets 2 days to sell 12 cars to keep his job and keep his girlfriends happy. It gets worse. He's juggling 3 buyers when a guy with a machine gun crashes into the car dealership and takes... Read allJoey gets 2 days to sell 12 cars to keep his job and keep his girlfriends happy. It gets worse. He's juggling 3 buyers when a guy with a machine gun crashes into the car dealership and takes everybody hostage.Joey gets 2 days to sell 12 cars to keep his job and keep his girlfriends happy. It gets worse. He's juggling 3 buyers when a guy with a machine gun crashes into the car dealership and takes everybody hostage.
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- (as Jim Buleit)
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- TriviaFran Drescher's dog, Chester, receives a film credit in the movie as "Chester Drescher."
- GoofsAlthough a Jewish funeral and cemetery are shown at the opening of the film, as evidenced by the tombstone inscriptions, flowers are seen accompanying the coffin. This is inconsistent with Jewish burial tradition, where flowers are never used in the funeral ceremony.
- Quotes
Larry: (to cops) Stay back! (to Joey) Tell them to stay back or I'll blow this place and half the fuckin' block to hell.
Joey: He says stay back or he's gonna blow this place and half the block to hell.
Detective Walters (Gary Howard Klar) (on bullhorn): Yeah? With what?
Larry: The stuff on my bike there. It's very explosive stuff.
Joey: He's got stuff strapped to his bike!
Det. Walters: So what? So's my little kid. Look, we wanna know what it is.
Larry: M2 plastic.
Joey: (to Larry) Plastic?
Larry: M2 plastic.
Joey: (to Larry) Plastique? Oh, shit.
Larry: Yeah.
Joey: M2 plastique!
Det. Walters: M2 plastique? You tell him we don't believe him. Where the hell did he get that?
Larry: Jersey.
Joey: Jersey!
Det. Walters: OK! OK! What does he want?
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits of the cast, it says: Oh... and Elaine Stritch as the widow
- Soundtracks(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It
Written by Sharon Pease
Published by Criterion Music Corp.
Performed by Julia Lee
Courtesy of Capitol Records
By Arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
But lo and behold, one year after the turning point, when Robin changed from quick witted comic to pedantic instructor to the lessor informed than himself, this little gem is released.
What other film has ever cast the salesman as the hero. Not a tragic failure, but a force of life. A hero, who "sells" the emotionally disturbed gunmen to surrender and not hurt anyone. The salesman who is the only possible hero to save this day!
He sells cars to everybody. He sells himself to multiple girlfriends far more attractive than himself, because he is the consumate salesman. I dare anyone to name me one work of literature or film who's creators were incorrect enough to find good, not bad, in the salesman. Contrast this with the very correct Glengarry Glen Ross, the result of David Mamet's never-ending search for the ugly underbellies ruining the world wherever he gazes.
Salesman as "force majeur"! And Robin Williams performance is perfect. Oh Robin, the saddest words of kith and kin are surely these: it might have been. Thanks you for this gem of a film standing out from the horrid body of work you have left us.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Чоловік-кадилак
- Filming locations
- 3721 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, USA(dealership showroom)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,627,310
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,712,079
- May 20, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $27,627,310