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 dispensability 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 feeIings, 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 Globe 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 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 incapable of providing for his family, many of whom have failed to Iive up to their own potentiaI. |