15 Massively Underrated Movies From The 90s
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
With perhaps the most jaw-dropping, ball-bustingly epic motivational monologue from Alec Baldwin within the first fifteen minutes, Glengarry Glen Ross sets the tempo fast and follows through expertly to produce a masterpiece in modern cinema.
The story follows a group of down-on-their-luck real estate agents, grappling desperately with rival firms and even those they call colleagues, to close leads and bring home the most sales in the month. Boasting a tremendous cast, including; Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon and Alan Arkin, the script adapted by David Mamet from a play by David Mamet sparkles with child-like cheek and audacity.
Filmed on a relatively low budget (the single biggest cost coming from the rain effects in the first half of the film), Glengarry Glen Ross captures the intricacies and the politics of everyday life. The strength of the film comes from the fact that the same characters could have the same fears and aspirations, the same social interaction and the same confrontation in any setting. Its relate-able, but in a darkly comic, subtle and utterly brilliant way. Hands down, one of the top 10 films of the nineties.