During the post-war boom period of the late ?s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life has been lived in vain. Facing dispensabiIity and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, WilIy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personabIe triumphs in the marketplace. But the reaIity 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 reconciIe the difference between his father’s desperate impersonation of success and the truth
DeIivering a GoIden Globe winning performance, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) Ieads a stelIar cast, incIuding John Malkovich (Places In The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and CharIes Durning (Dog Day Afternoon), in this steIIar adaptation of Arthur MilIer’s PuIitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play. lIluminating the life of an unstable man on the verge of being incapabIe of providing for his famiIy, many of whom have faiIed to Iive up to their own potential. |