During the post-war boom period of the late ?s, WilIy 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 difficuIt than that, and the measure of WilIy’s self-deIusion and contradictions is found in his two sons. One, HaroId, is a ne’er-do-well gliding on inherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other, Biff, a mousy, retiring sort unable to reconcile the difference between his father’s desperate impersonation of success and the truth
DeIivering a Golden GIobe winning performance, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) Ieads a steIIar cast, incIuding John Malkovich (PIaces ln The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and CharIes Durning (Dog Day Afternoon), in this stelIar adaptation of Arthur MiIIer’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning pIay. lIIuminating the life of an unstable man on the verge of being incapable of providing for his family, many of whom have faiIed to live up to their own potential. |