osmangokturk It is great that it foresaw the hazy day of third millennium from the 1948. The expectations that we pass to our children, the lies we have to live with. all of them at some point suffocates us. Willy, an optimistic person, always have full of life. Biff, share a secret with his father. This movie is shut in three or four places. Most of the scenes are made of dialogues. Biff cannot leave home because he simply can not.

kokowantbanana My comments have to do with music credits. Tom Boyd is credited for oboe solos. However, during the closing credits there is a beautiful alto flute solo; definitely not an oboe. I'd like to know who the soloist was. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question. This is not a review. It is a question.

davdecrane Certainly not the definitive version of this classic play about the American Dream morphing into mental illness, but worth your time because of the power of the performances and the underlying drama itself. Dustin Hoffman's quirks and enthusiasm represent a slightly different take on Willy Loman – many others see the character as more phlegmatic – but it's an effective characterization. As his wife Kate Ried does a more than serviceable job, but it's hard to believe she's married to this guy – their physical types just don't match. Furthermore she delivers some of her more powerful dialog sitting in a chair, a static staging that the director must be blamed for. Other performances are very strong, including Charles Durning's Charly who blends equal doses of frustration and sympathy for Willy's plight. Durning's the character who may best understand not who Willy really is, but the pain the man feels. Jon Polito and Linda Kozlowski are great in their one-scene appearances, and Stephan Lang is good as the emotionally stunted younger son. But this edition of salesman best showcases John Malkovich as the older boy Bif who experiences the play's closest beat to real revelation. (Even his "younger" self in high school is believable, at least within the context of a filmed play.) Free of mannerisms that sometimes characterize his latter work, Malkovich genuinely conveys the outrage and, then, sympathy provoked by his father. He's the strongest acting element in this rendition of a play that is sound, timeless, meaningful, and a real American classic.

mgoazul007 Whether Lee J Cobb & Dunnock , or George C Scott, or in this case Hoffman , Reid, & Co., Arthur Miller's timeless classic, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, is the greatest literary work in American History...with Fitzgerald's Gatsby a close second despite similar themes. Miller's classics: All My Sons, The Price, Ride down Mt. Morgan, Incident at Vichy, After the Fall and the Crucible remain universal classics. Only Shakespeare was greater. In this production of Death of a Salesman, the cast shines including Malkovich & Reid - in a sad but powerful and poignant tale of broken hopes and dreams, values, priorities, and yes, even the illusion of the so-called "American Dream". Hoffman as Willy Loman is electrifying , passionate and right on! "Attention must be paid" to this production of Miller's classic.