Cadillac Man

1990 "If you can't trust a car salesman who can you trust?"
5.7| 1h37m| R| en| More Info
Released: 18 May 1990 Released
Producted By: Orion Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.

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Tyler Jewell I miss Robin Williams and he's the brilliant guy. He's from "Mork and Mindy" and I saw "The Tales of the Frog Prince" from "Faerie Tale Theatre" with Shelley Duvall. I think he's the good person and I suppose he's the nice guy. Maybe, the friends to be asking of him. His family and friends is farewell to Robin Williams. In fact, Chris Diamantopoulos could do it on impersonating Robin Williams. I love it to hear it. I watched "Jumanji" and he's the good game player to roll the dice. Alan Parrish won the game. Sometimes, pretty fancy. It will be okay for his family. I hope you will miss him on the funeral and that is how it happened. Thank you.
The Legend This really is not one of Robin Williams' best films, in fact it is probably one of his worst ! The first half of the film just ambles along, leaving you hoping that it will get better - but it doesn't - it gets worse ! If you enjoy someone aimlessly shooting bullets into the ceiling whilst constantly shouting, then maybe this is for you. The shouting goes on for too long for no reason and you will do well to remain interested. There is very little humour in what is supposed to be a "comedy" . Robin Williams is better than this and so are most of his other films. A lot of the other reviewers seemed to enjoy it so I hope this review balances things. Watch it for yourself but don't be surprised if you switch off before it ends !
filmfanaticNorCal This movie is funny, insightful, and alarming all at the same time. This is a synopsis of mostly Italian American life in working class burroughs of NY (Queens, Long Island, whatever). Joey (Robin Williams) is juggling two neurotic girlfriends and an ex-wife while struggling to keep his job as a smooth talking car salesman. The movie starts off with a shot of a cemetery in Queens, the biggest damn cemetery I have ever seen. It gives you the feeling of crowdedness, that even in death people are crowded and are probably still arguing over elbow room. Joey is desperate and even tries to sell a car to a widow as she is burying her husband. Eventually, a distraught and somewhat deranged husband of the car dealer's secretary takes over the dealership with a machine gun, convinced that somebody there is screwing with his sexy wife (which is true). It isn't Joey, but he takes the rap and tries to talk the guy down, doing a pretty good job. Car salesman becomes psychologist, and he does an amazingly good job, along with help from a phone call from both his wife and his mother to the distraught man. This is the best part of the movie. You see Joey and Larry (Robbins) play out this scene with both humor and fright. Larry is trying to prove his manhood to his wife. You understand his plight and feel his pain, and at the same time you see the mans compassion, especially with the phone calls from Joey's ex-wife and mother. There is something very real about this scene and I would think that someone who has to talk down a hostage situation might gain something from watching how Joey makes connections with Larry on a personal level. Eventually Larry sees what a mess Joey's life is and starts to see that actually his situation isn't that bad. This movie is as much about the alienation and frustration of modern life as anything else. The movie is loud and frantic and might put you off in that respect, but hang with it.
ccthemovieman-1 Here's yet another movie with dysfunctional lead characters who are totally amoral and, yet, we're supposed to root for them? Not me. No character in this film was worth a damn.Robin Williams plays car salesman "Joey O'Brien." The man has no class, a loser in every moral sense and a guy who thinks he can talk his way out of anything. Knowing Williams' ability to talk, he was good for this role. The women in his life are driving him loony, too. Some of them aren't much better than him.Tim Robbins plays a similar low-life who starts the take over the film when he, fully loaded with explosives, crashes into a car dealership showroom and holds people, including his wife, hostage. Robbins, as in normal for him, plays a disturbed and ridiculous character. I guess these nut-case roles come easily to these two actors. Gee, I wonder why.There is so much yelling and screaming in this the movie that it will give you a headache. Combine those two screamers with the nasal voice of Fran Drescher and you really have an annoying over-the-top cast. This is like listening to chalk on a blackboard for an hour-and- a-half. This is comedy? No, this is lame. In fact, for a Robin Williams film to only have a dozen reviews posted here tells you something. It's a far cry from his best movie.