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Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with success and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has...
4) Door-to-door
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Bill Porter, a man with cerebal palsy. With little hope of getting a real job, Bill asks to take on the position of salesman in the most unwanted and difficult territory. He gets the job and makes his rounds, impacting the lives of his customers during his nearly 50-year career that often found him at the top of his company's sales charts.
5) Flywheel
Language
English
Description
Jay Austin wants to sell used cars in the worst way...and that's exactly how he does business at his dealership. Promising much more than he can ever deliver, he'll do whatever it takes to sell a car. His manipulative ways permeate all of his relationships-even his wife and son don't trust him. But as Jay works on restoring a classic convertible, he begins to see that God is working on restoring him as well. Coming face to face with the reality...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1026
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
7) Ingenious
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lifelong friends Matt and Sam are searching for the one big idea that will change their lives forever. But their inventions fall flat and their sales techniques leave the customers wanting. In need of cash, they turn to Matt's girlfriend Gina. When one bad decision costs them everything they have and puts their friendship to the test, they find that hitting rock bottom could lead them to the most ingenious idea they've ever had.
Language
日本語
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After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with gangsters, strange interlopers, kidnapping, and other sundry crimes and misdemeanors. Singular auteur Koji Fukada (A Girl Missing) marks...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Maggie meets her match in a charming Viagra salesman named Jamie. Maggie and Jamie leap into a no-strings-attached affair, but no matter how hard they try to keep things 'casual,' they can't help falling under the influence of the ultimate drug: love!
11) The man
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
ATF agent Derrick Vann's partner, who happened to be corrupt, has been killed after a cache of guns were stolen from the ATF office in Detroit. Internal affairs believe Derrick was in on the gun theft, forcing him to go off on his own to bring the bad guys to justice. At the same time, dental supply salesman Andy Fiddler happens to be in Detroit for a business convention. During the course of investigating who is responsible for his partner's death,...
13) People like us
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English
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"[A] twenty-something, fast-talking salesman's latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down--he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2017], p1949, p1948
Language
English
Description
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: a singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
The emperor's waltz: a brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.
18) Bundle of joy
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A salesgirl picks up a foundling, is mistaken for its unwed mother and must keep up the charade, baby and all, to keep her job. The musical remake of one of the great comedies of the '30s, Bachelor Mother.
19) Small time
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Instead of going to college, a teenage boy decides to sell used cars with his divorced father.
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