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Tin Men (1987)

Comedy | 112 minutes
3,21 274 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Barry Levinson

Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and Barbara Hershey

IMDb score: 6,6 (10.567)

Releasedate: 6 March 1987

Tin Men plot

"The American Dream changes. The people who sell it don't."

Baltimore, 1968. An accidental collision brings two aluminum representatives into conflict. BB is a sweet talker, Tilley a corpulent nerve. Due to their irascible nature, the minor collision quickly escalates into a relentless vendetta, with both men primarily targeting each other's status symbols: their highly prized Cadillac. The arguing continues and things obviously don't get better when Tilley's wife chokes her husband and moves in with BB. This romantic incident sparks non-stop feuds, until BB and Tilley finally decide to turn it into a competition. Inset: Tilley's wife...

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rep_robert

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Tin Men is a very funny comedy that relies on the sharp dialogues and the special interaction between De Vito and Dreyfuss. They sometimes work on the cutting edge and that occasionally results in hilarious moments.

Levinson is forgiven for cramming in a slightly too long middle section, making the film a bit too long for a comedy.

3.5*

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scorsese

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Good film in which a car accident unleashes a feud between two sellers of aluminum for house facades. The film is set in 1963 and gives a nice picture of the time (especially because of the Cadillac's). Entertaining dialogues, especially the conversations with colleagues. Besides that Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito are well cast, they also play their roles well.

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Filmkriebel

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Positive points :

- Danny De Vito

- Danny De Vito

- Danny De Vito

Comedy in which an unfortunate salesman has everything against him: an enemy with whom he gets into a bitter feud, his wife who wants to divorce him (although he doesn't even mind), the tax authorities confiscate his assets and his job which he risks losing to an investigation by a professional ethics committee into fraudulent sales practices ...

Tin Men relies on the fine dialogues and owes a lot to De Vito's top performance. However, I expected some more funny situations from the conflict between the two. The life lesson here is that the small quarrel is actually insignificant compared to the real setbacks in life. Not bad, but because of the high numbers, it's below my expectations.

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