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Tin Men
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Tin Men is a 1987 comedy-drama from writer/director Barry Levinson that stars Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, and Barbara Hershey.The title is a slang term for aluminum siding salesmen, which both Bill "BB" Babowsky (Dreyfuss) and Ernest Tilley (DeVito) are, for different firms in 1963 Baltimore. Early in the film, BB buys a new car, only to be immediately rear-ended by Tilley as he's backing out of the lot. The two immediately get into an argument, and it eventually leads to an Escalating War between the two, which includes BB seducing Tilley's wife Nora (Hershey). The film also shows the lengths salesmen go to get a sale, which leads to a government investigation.This is the second in Levinson's Baltimore trilogy (following Diner), and like the previous film, was well received for its Seinfeldian Conversation and its performances. | |
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Anachronism Stew: The Fine Young Cannibals are the band playing at any of the bars the characters go to. To be fair, the songs they perform ("Good Thing", "Hard as it Is", "Social Security", and "Tell Me What") at least attempt to sound period, but still. | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack | |
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Hollywood Heart Attack: Moe, though it's ultimately averted by the fact he doesn't die from it. | |
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Pistol-Whipping: Tilley does this to BB when he catches BB sneaking into his house. Turns out BB was looking for Nora. Tilley then throws eggs and tomatoes at BB to humiliate him, and gets charged with assault as a result. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: BB. He engages in some pretty unethical scams in his job, and what he does to Tilley is pretty harsh as well. However, he does genuinely care for Moe (even protecting him from the government's investigation), and grows to care for Nora. | |
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"Before" and "After" Pictures | |
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"Before" and "After" Pictures: One of the scams BB and Moe use is to pretend to be photographers from Life magazine who are taking pictures of a house before it installs aluminum siding. Naturally, the homeowner would rather be the house in the "after" picture... | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: BB pretends to be a widower out food shopping to charm Nora when they first meet. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: BB is somewhere between this and a Lovable Rogue, especially when he turns his sights on Nora. | |
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Married to the Job | |
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Married to the Job: Tilley. It's part of the reason why Nora so eagerly enters into an affair with BB, as she's starved for affection. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: BB gives one of these to Stanley when he finds out Stanley's The Mole. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: BB taking notice on how well car salesmen do. | |
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Benevolent Boss | |
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Benevolent Boss: Wing. Even when he has Tilley fired, he still gives him money to tide him over. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: BB; also, probably Cheese and Mouse. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Sam is obsessed with Bonanza, or rather, obsessed with pointing out how unrealistic it is. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: Except for the feud, BB and Tilley's stories are shown separately. | |
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Lovable Rogue | |
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Lovable Rogue: Most of the salesmen - especially BB - except for Tilley. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: When Tilley first testifies at the Home Improvement Commission hearings, he points out people who sell suits at department stores, and claim the suit looks good on the customer when it doesn't, deceived customers more than tin men do, yet the government doesn't seem to be up in arms about that. | |
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Snake Oil Salesman | |
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Snake Oil Salesman: All of the characters are this, which is why they're under investigation. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Stanley | |
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The Tell | |
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The Tell: Discussed. Moe tells Stanley the best way to tell if a customer will be an easy sell or a hard sell is to drop a book of matches when you're trying to light a cigarette for yourself; if the customer picks up the matches for you, they're an easy sell, but if they wait for you to pick up the matches, they're a tough sell. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: BB towards Moe - when he gives Stanley enough evidence to implicate himself in the government's investigation, he tells Stanley to leave Moe out of it because Moe has quit the business. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: BB and Moe; Tilley and Sam. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Every time BB gets a new car, something happens to it. | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order | |
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Overcomplicated Menu Order: Bagel and Sam try to get BB and Tilley to make peace with each other by taking them out to breakfast; however, BB becomes so frustrated at Tilley taking so long to order breakfast (specifically, in how the eggs are cooked) that they start up their feud again. | |
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