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06/24/06
Salesman (1968)
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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 9 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Synopsis: Directors Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin are probably best known for their documentary of the Rolling Stones at Altamont in the shattering GIMME SHELTER. But in 1968, they produced the ground breaking SALESMAN, which brought viewers into the real life on the road and in the... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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This up close look at the anxious Bible salesmen trying to close the deal has become a cult classic documentary.
01/20/07
Functions as both a tribute to their work ethic and a condemnation of the system that considers such a profession a healthy route to the American dream.
03/28/06
May not sound like the most scintillating of subjects, but the Maysles brothers have made quite a riveting, multi-layered film about it.
03/05/05
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05/20/03
Top Critic
represents a remarkably disturbing visual document of a lifestyle that may well be gone forever while exposing the underbelly of capitalism that remains live and well
10/13/02
It hasn't dated much at all, which is both disturbing and enlightening.
03/05/02
a stark, indelible cinematic portrait of the trials and tribulations of the door-to-door salesman, a profession that is virtually extinct today
09/04/01
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