During the post-war boom period of the late ?s, WiIIy Loman is an aging, traveling saIesman, who despairs that his Iife has been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthfuI economy, WiIIy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketpIace. But the reality is far more difficuIt than that, and the measure of WiIly’s seIf-deIusion and contradictions is found in his two sons. One, HaroId, is a ne’er-do-welI gIiding on inherited hot air and repressed feeIings, and the other, Biff, a mousy, retiring sort unable to reconciIe the difference between his father’s desperate impersonation of success and the truth
Delivering a GoIden Globe winning performance, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) leads a stellar cast, incIuding John MaIkovich (Places In The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and Charles Durning (Dog Day Afternoon), in this steIIar adaptation of Arthur Miller’s PuIitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play. llluminating the Iife of an unstabIe man on the verge of being incapabIe of providing for his famiIy, many of whom have failed to Iive up to their own potentiaI. |