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Release Date: 1987
Cast: John Mahoney, Matt Craven, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Brock, Bruno Kirby, J. T. Walsh, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Blumenfeld, Richard Portnow, Jackie Gayle, Seymour Cassel ...MORE
Cast: John Mahoney, Matt Craven, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Brock, Bruno Kirby, J. T. Walsh, Richard Dreyfuss, Alan Blumenfeld, Richard Portnow, Jackie Gayle, Seymour Cassel, Brad Sullivan ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy-Drama, Comedy, Period Piece
Tin Men is a 1987 comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Mark Johnson and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and Barbara Hershey. It is part of Levinson's series of "Baltimore Films", set in his hometown during the 1940s through the 1960s. The series, in order, is Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights.
Ernest Tilley and Bill "BB" Babowsky are "tin men," door-to-door aluminum-siding salesmen in Baltimore in 1963. Working for different companies, they are prepared to do almost anything — legal or illegal — to close a sale.
The two meet after BB buys a... MORE
Tin Men is a 1987 comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Mark Johnson and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and Barbara Hershey. It is part of Levinson's series of "Baltimore Films", set in his hometown during the 1940s through the 1960s. The series, in order, is Diner, Tin Men, Avalon, and Liberty Heights.
Ernest Tilley and Bill "BB" Babowsky are "tin men," door-to-door aluminum-siding salesmen in Baltimore in 1963. Working for different companies, they are prepared to do almost anything — legal or illegal — to close a sale.
The two meet after BB buys a new Cadillac to maintain a successful image and almost immediately crashes into another Cadillac driven by Tilley. It is not clear who is at fault for the accident -- BB is entering the street from the dealer's garage door, in reverse but very slowly, while Tilley was clearly distracted despite having the right of way -- but the two vow to do anything to get back at one another.
After smashing the glass on each other's cars, BB takes it a step further. He seduces Tilley's wife as an act of revenge. What he doesn't know is that Tilley wants to leave her anyway.
Exhausted by their rivalry, the two men LESS
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