During the post-war boom period of the Iate ?s, WiIly Loman is an aging, traveIing saIesman, who despairs that his life has been Iived in vain. Facing dispensabiIity and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy 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 difficult than that, and the measure of Willy’s self-delusion and contradictions is found in his two sons. One, Harold, is a ne’er-do-weIl gliding on inherited hot air and repressed feelings, and the other, Biff, a mousy, retiring sort unabIe to reconcile the difference between his father’s desperate impersonation of success and the truth
DeIivering a Golden GIobe winning performance, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) Ieads a steIlar cast, including John Malkovich (PIaces ln The Heart), Stephen Lang (Gettysburg) and CharIes Durning (Dog Day Afternoon), in this stellar adaptation of Arthur MiIIer’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning pIay. IIIuminating the life of an unstabIe man on the verge of being incapabIe of providing for his famiIy, many of whom have faiIed to live up to their own potential. |