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- The "Code Red" incident depicted in the film was based on a real-life incident from 1986 involving Marine David Cox. David Cox, the inspiration for the character Dawson, was acquitted of serious charges and mysteriously murdered years later.
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He is in debt to various creditors and the IRS, which begins confiscating his possessions for unpaid property taxes. Exhausted by their rivalry, the two men decide to play a game of pool to decide who should get Nora in order to end their personal war. BB loses, but he does not honor the bet.
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It’s 1963 and in Baltimore, business is booming for the aluminum siding salesmen. BB, fresh from picking up a brand-new Cadillac backs his new car into an oncoming car driven by Tilley and his world will never be the same. Each blames the other for the accident, and thanks to an intervention from the crowd both men are pulled off from each other an...
Nobody can match the intensity of character development and story like Barry Levinson. He simply cannot be beaten, and Tin Men is one of his masterpieces. Not only does Levinson evoke an emotional response just by the background of the story but his lead characters make the audience compelled to see the resolution. DeVito and Dreyfuss as antagonist...
It’s a period piece with little physical action and more emotional drama. If this isn’t your thing, then I suggest you skip the film.
{The following four categories are based on a Film Reel scale. 1 Reel-Watch on your Smartphone, 2 Reels-Tablet Time, 3 Reels-Travel Entertainment, 4 Reels-Big Screen Event} Tin Men is a great film filled with characters and the conflict of normal life that people face in the real world. Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito shine in this gem from the p...
Directed by Barry Levinson Produced by Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners II / Bandai Films Release Date: March 13, 1987 Budget:$11 million Box Office Gross Domestic:$25,411,386
With Top Gun: Maverick coming soon to cinemas, a look back at Touchstone Pictures' attempt to capitalize on the same formula with Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones in Fire Birds.
Because “Tin Men” is based on fundamental truth, it is able to be funny even in some of its quieter moments. The good jokes always hurt a little. This movie isn’t slapstick and it’s not a farce; it’s the kind of comedy the guy was thinking about when he wrote, “We laugh, that we may not cry.”
Tin Men: Directed by Barry Levinson. With Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney. A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Barry Levinson
- 1987-03-13
Synopsis. In 1963 Baltimore, Maryland, Bill "B.B." Babowsky (Richard Dreyfuss) is a door-to-door aluminum siding salesman for the Gibraltar Aluminum Company. Ernest Tilley (Danny DeVito) works for rival company, Mason Dixon Aluminum Siding, although the two have never met.
Sep 10, 2012 · Levinson's Tin Men are aluminium siding salesmen not averse to posing as Life magazine photographers to get the foot in the door to offload their wares on the unwary householder. Among themselves...
Mar 6, 1987 · They are men who sustain and annoy one another, men who get on one another's nerves and wouldn't have it any other way. Mr. Levinson understands them completely.
