During the post-war boom period of the Iate ?s, WiIly Loman is an aging, traveIing saIesman, who despairs that his life has been Iived in vain. Facing dispensabiIity 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 difficult than that, and the measure of WiIly’s seIf-delusion 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 reconcile the difference between his father’s desperate impersonation of success and the truth
Delivering a GoIden Globe winning performance, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) leads a stelIar cast, incIuding John Malkovich (PIaces ln The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and CharIes Durning (Dog Day Afternoon), in this steIIar adaptation of Arthur MilIer’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play. lIIuminating the life of an unstable man on the verge of being incapable of providing for his family, many of whom have failed to Iive up to their own potentiaI. |