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English
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The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
3) Tommy boy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Holy schnike edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Party animal Tommy Callahan is definitely a few cans short of a six-pack. But after seven years, Tommy's finally earned his diploma -- and a cushy job at Callahan Auto Parts. Returning home, Tommy gets some more great news: his dad is marrying a real "10," and Tommy will get the stepbrother he always wanted. But as fast as you can say "Who killed the keg?," the family business starts tanking. Now Tommy's got to hit the road with his dad's right-hand...
4) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version; director's cut.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around and begins to honor God with his business after he is caught deceiving customers.
5) Fight club
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
8) The founder
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
9) Tin men
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Description
Two less-than-honest aluminum siding salesmen meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendetta against each other's symbols of success--their prized Cadillacs.
10) Door-to-door
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
William H. Macy plays Bill who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, uses humor, initiative and warmth to make his way as a salesman and to make a difference in the lives of his customers.
11) The return
Publisher
Universal Picture
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Joanna Mills is a tough young woman who is determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her.
12) First snow
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
After his car breaks down in a desolate town, Jimmy Starks, a slick salesman, visits a fortune teller to kill some time. But the psychic's ominous reading sends Jimmy's life into a tailspin when he learns that his life will soon end with the coming winter's first snow.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Traveling Saleslady finds Joan playing a toothpaste heiress who takes her "cocktail-flavored toothpaste" discovery on the road and to the competition, after her father decides that the office is no place for a lady. Glenda plays a drugstore proprietress and provides Joan's romantic competition, while Hugh Herbert plays a zany inventor.
Miss Pacific Fleet has the girls playing carnival hucksters, stranded and strapped for cash on the wrong coast....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, Emily Merkle (aka Mrs. Miracle) is working in the toy department at Finley's. Her boss is Jake Finley, the owner's son, who needs a miracle to keep the business afloat. Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. Her widowed brother who is in the army won't be home for the holidays. For Christmas her nephew wants the toy robot he saw at Finley's, and she plans to get it for him. Fortunately, it's Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children...
15) Bundle of joy
Series
Publisher
RKO Pictures, Inc
Edition
Remastered ed.
Language
English
Description
A salesgirl picks up a foundling, is mistaken for its unwed mother and must keep up the charade, baby and all, to keep her job. The musical remake of one of the great comedies of the '30s, Bachelor Mother.
Language
English
Description
Her husband's affairs: When a miracle hair removing cream turns out to be a hair growth cream, the ad-man is accused of murdering the inventor and the advertiser's wife must come to his rescue.
Miss Grant takes Richmond: A clueless secretary threatens the office owner's illegal bookmaking business.
The Fuller Brush girl: A bumbling door-to-door saleswoman is framed for a murder. She and her boyfriend flee from police to track down the real criminal.
The...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Maggie meets her match in a charming Viagra salesman named Jamie. Maggie and Jamie leap into a no-strings-attached affair, but no matter how hard they try to keep things "casual," they can't help falling under the influence of the ultimate drug: love!
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
This first set of Broadway Theatre Archives Great Performances includes the superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, Death of a Salesman; Alice at the Palace, a "music hall" version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; Uncommon Women and Others, Wendy Wasserstein's play about Mount Holyoke graduates at a reunion assessing whether they have achieved their goals; and For Colored Girls Who Have...
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