I watched it when I first got into real estate and thought it was hilarious. I guess it's a matter of personal taste. Mine is on the warped side, apparently.

Oh no Deborah!  I'm usually right there with you on the warped humor side.  That's why I thought for SURE I would like it!  I don't know.  Maybe it was a mood thing.  It was like the prom...too many expectations.  It's never as good as you THINK it is going to be or should be.

So what's the name of the movie?

Name of the movie is Glengarry Glen Ross.   Crazy I know!

I love this movie and there is technique throughout....watch it and look for it and you will see it throughout the movie.  Just like Tommy Boy and Boiler Room. 

Val- I rented the movie the other night all I know is that I need more good leads.

Glengarry Glenross is one of my favorite movies.  Al Pacino was amazing.  I believe the point is that if you don't think outside the box then how will you succeed in any market, selling anything.  These sales agents, Realtors (for lack of a better term), were getting poor leads for timeshares. They were calling all of the same leads over and over.  The "broker" was basically trying to figure out who is the real sales agent.  These realtors were only sitting in this office calling and not creating their own "rain."  All of the people in whatever city they were in are not interested in timeshares? C'mon. I never saw networking, cold calling, direct mail campaigns, or farming.  And Al Pacino was just so much better because the upper management liked him.  Works the same in our business, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I worked in an office where we never got any leads, not even bad ones. And our broker never acknowledged any of us on an individual level unless we had escrows on the board. [KS I love you for that]. There were so many agents complaining there was no training or help given.  It just gave me the opportunity to put on my thinking cap and figure out where the money was. First of all I put myself on his calendar and scheduled one on one time with him. I wanted to succeed.  I had three escrows in the same month.

I took film appreciation in school and I have yet to figure out what "Glengarry Glenross" meant.

Hope this helps.

I thought it was funny because of the tactics, or LACK of the tactics, that the agents had.  They were so silly!  Jack Lemon was a riot on how he conducted himself on the phone!  They were all focused around the "LEADS" rather than generating their own business like Al Pacino's character.  But still.....the movie went on and on and on and on on onon...........  You get the point in the beginning!  And stealing the leads?  The humor I know is a little out dated (not to mention drawn out).  I still don't get if the movie was only about getting the leads with the underlying symbol about making your own "rain" so to speak because nothing that's worth anything will ever be given to you or what!  If that's the case, you get that in the first part of the movie! 

I love questions like this because everyone has an opinion, so here is mine. This is the all time best Sales movie. The entire "glen gary" leads was a set up. There were no good leads, only leads. Alec Baldwin made them believe that there were good leads out there, all they had to do to get these good leads was close their old leads. Al Pacino knew that, he was a closer. Jack Lemmon was not a closer, he was looking for Panacea. The back stabbing and the collusion was brilliant. This and "The Game" are two of my favorite David Mamet plays. Please watch the movie again, and pay attention to everyone's motivation. And Valerie, if you are a closer you first place will get a Cadillac Eldorado, second place steak knives, and third place, your fired!

It's not a comedy, it's a pressure cooker.  A brilliant one at that.  How can anyone in sales not relate to something in this film? 

I've always wanted to see this one and "Tin Men" back-to-back.  Two perspectives on the same topic (sales), one dark, one light.  Both entertaining and instructive in their particular ways.

Valerie that is one of the funniest sales movies ever... I guess it is a matter of how twisted your humor is... Lol... But I think the point is that leads are our life line and one agent got it he was making a killing with the leads and rest kept compllaining about how horrible the quality of the leads were. Sounds all too familiar but my favorite part was the coffee seen. Maybe you should watch it one more time...

Michael-

     The coffee scene was pretty funny.  I think I was tired that night and it was dark the entire movie (because they were hunting down leads at 12 am!).  I will give it one more shot...  I thought that Al Pacino's character was getting his own leads and Jack Lemon kept relying on the old leads and never worked to build his business.  Maybe I will get Tin Men & Glengarry and watch them back to back like Paul! :)