| Tin Men | |
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| Directed by | Barry Levinson |
| Produced by | Mark Johnson |
| Written by | Barry Levinson |
| Starring | Richard Dreyfuss Danny DeVito Barbara Hershey Seymour Cassel Bruno Kirby |
| Music by | Fine Young Cannibals |
| Editing by | Stu Linder |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 6, 1987 |
| Running time | 110 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $11,000,000 (estimated) |
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Tagline
Tin Men Don't Get Mad. . . . They Get Even!
Plot
Ernest Tilley and Bill "BB" Babowsky are "tin men" — door-to-door aluminum siding salesmen in Baltimore in 1963. This article is about the house covering See Rail siding for an alternative usage of this term Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Working for different companies, they are prepared to do almost anything — legal or illegal — to close a sale. BB buys a shiny Cadillac to maintain his image of success and almost immediately crashes into another Cadillac driven by Tilley (all "tin men" drive a Cadillac). Cadillac is a Brand of Luxury vehicles owned by General Motors. It is not clear who is at fault for the accident (BB is entering the public way from the dealer, in reverse but very slowly; Tilley has the right of way, however, he was clearly distracted). This generates a spate of road rage and the two rivals vow to do anything to get back at the other. Road rage is the behavior by a driver of an automobile or other motor vehicle which thus causes collisions or incidents on roadways BB seduces Tilley's wife as an act of revenge, not knowing that Tilley wants to leave her anyway. Exhausted by their rivalry, the two men decide to play a game of pool to decide who should get her. Eight-ball, sometimes called stripes and solids and more rarely bigs and littles or highs and lows, is a Pocket billiards (pool game popular BB loses, but he does not honor the bet.
An investigating government commission charged with uprooting corrupt sales practices in the home improvements industry calls both men before them, and takes away their licenses. Reconciled to their fate, the two men start planning new business deals together.
Main cast
- Danny DeVito as Ernest Tilley
- Richard Dreyfuss as Bill "BB" Babowsky
- Barbara Hershey as Nora Tilley
- Seymour Cassel as Cheese
- Bruno Kirby as Mouse
- Michael Tucker as Bagel (the same character he portrayed in the film Diner)
External links
- Tin Men at the Internet Movie Database
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