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Editorial Review:
Tin Men, the second in Barry Levinson's ongoing film series about his native Baltimore in the 1950s and '60s, focuses on a pair of competing aluminum-siding salesman at a point when the industry was loaded with scam artists. Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito play rivals who get involved in a fender-bender that quickly escalates from a minor argument into an all-out war, as they begin pulling practical jokes on each other. Dreyfuss takes it too far, however, when he sets out to seduce DeVito's unhappy wife (Barbara Hershey) and winds up falling in love with her. Much of the humor here comes from Levinson's keen ear as writer and director for the way these people talk--and what they talk about (like the discussion of why four men are living together without women on the Ponderosa in Bonanza). Beside the leads, the cast includes a great host of character actors, including Jackie Gayle, Bruno Kirby, John Mahoney, and J.T. Walsh. Others in Levinson's body of Baltimore films are Diner, Avalon, and the most recent, Liberty Heights. --Marshall Fine

Tin Men [Region 2] Reviews:
It's a salesman's flick
2009-12-20 - As a salesman, I appreciate this movie. It shows the dark side of sales including the heart break (attack). The no's are there as well as the games salesmen play to get the close. Excuse me, is this you five dollar bill I found on the floor? This crosses all boundaries for us sales people. It takes in all of the highs and lows of the sales life.

When I feel a need for comiseration I turn to 'tin men' and 'Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross'... "They just like talking to salesmen"....

richard dreyfuss
2009-10-10 - A great movie, especially if you are from Baltimore, very ethnic, and very entertaining, it is worth seeing a few times,

Mad Men
2009-08-30 - Long before Mad Men Mad Men - Season One [Blu-ray] was even a gleam in Matt Weiner's eye, Barry Levinson perfectly recreated Baltimore in 1963 in his valentine to that era, Tin Men. The comical plot revolves around two aluminum siding salesmen (Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito) who become embroiled in a protracted, and at times, violent feud over a minor car accident. This escalates into Dreyfuss seducing Barbara Hershey, DeVito's character's innocent and neglected wife and further complications ensue. The times, they are a changing!

But the real star is the innocence of the era, pre-Kennedy assassination, pre-Vietnam, pre-women's lib. The art department does a marvelous job here:spot-on costuming, wonderful gas guzzler cars, even tiny details like square Melamine plates and Frank Lloyd Wrightesque office interiors. This isn't Glengarry Glen Ross but still you get the sense of how the cut throat business of home improvements actually works and the supporting cast is just excellent.

Like the earlier Diner, this movie is all about the boys (or men as it were). However, wonderful locations shots, original songs by the Fine Young Cannibals and a touching performance by Ms. Hershey make this a movie that I love revisit periodically.

Stands The Test of a Couple Decades
2008-11-29 - Twenty years past its release date, Tin Men remains a keeper. Danny DeVito may have worn out his exasperated/enraged small man schtick by now, but in 1987 it was still fresh. Like Diner, Tin Men is set in end-of-an-era Baltimore, 1963, and so much that is in it has disappeared or declined. Crowd noise from old Memorial Stadium fills a part of one scene and the camera captures those brick row houses that lined the streets around the stadium in their prime. The Life Magazine scam scene and the diner and driving riffs on Bonanza are laugh out loud funny. In an excellent cast -- not only of leads, but with some of the era's best supporting players --, Barbara Hershey as the wife caught between the tantrums of shady aluminum siding salesmen stands out. And the fender level camera view of the tin men parking their perfect Cadillacs is auto nostalgia at its best. Overall, Tin Men serves up that nostalgia, but also wry look at human nature, and a well-shot picture of a working and living city into an enduring package. It is one very good movie.

gem of a comedy...
2008-11-24 - everything is so right about this film, the setting, the music, the acting. Really takes you back to the early 60's with Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershy, Dany DeVito doing some of their finest work. The supporting cast is incredible, John Mahoney, Bruno Kirby, the familiar faces and great work just goes on and on. But it is the writing that really seperates this into the 'special' category. Great writing, great directing amd great acting make for a especially great comedy.