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Tin Men
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R,2hrs 0min
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1987
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Walt Disney Video
Synopsis: The second of director Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy (the first was Diner, the third Avalon), Tin Men seems at first glance to be much ado about nothing. Set in 1963, the story begins when two aluminum siding salesmen, played by Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, are involved in a traffic accident. Fueled by their own individual frustrations--Dreyfuss dislikes the phonier aspects of his profession, while DeVito is unhappily married to Barbara Hershey--the two men begin an all-out war of harassment ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
Barry Levinson's episodic comedy on the feud of a couple of aluminum-siding hustlers is often a very funny outing which never meshes convincingly. Returning to the Baltimore of the early '60s, the site of his classic Diner, the director focuses on some older but hardly wiser characters, a pair of "tin men" whose pride in the fraudulence of their sales techniques makes the film something of a Glengarry ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Bill "BB" Babowsky
Ernest Tilley
Nora Tilley
Moe, Partner to "BB"
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Danny DeVitoWhen you think of Danny DeVito, you don't automatically think of great hair. But the...
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