History Theatre / GlengarryGlenRoss

* HenpeckedHusband: Lingk. From his description, we can deduce his wife to be wearing the pants in their relationship.

* PunchClockVillain: Williamson isn't a nice guy by any stretch, but he continually insists that he's just doing his job, and he'd get in trouble if he did anything except follow his specific instructions. He also states a number of times that he'd rather be home with his kids.

* FailedASpotCheck: Levene was so eager to make his big $82,000 sale to the Nyborgs that [[spoiler:he didn't pay any attention to their shabby living conditions, which should have tipped him off that they couldn't afford to buy real estate. He also didn't check the company memos about them or call their bank to verify their financial situation. Williamson even {{Lampshades}} this near the end of the movie.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: Levene was so eager to make his big $82,000 sale to tne Nyborgs that [[spoiler:he didn't pay any attention to their shabby living conditions, which should have tipped him off that they couldn't afford to buy real estate. He also didn't check the company memos about them or call their bank to verify their financial situation. Williamson even {{Lampshades}} this near the end of the movie.]]

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the original play, Levene comes into the office triumphant, after closing the Nyborg deal, only for Williamson to tell him that the Nyborgs are "insane", that there were office memos to that effect that Levene apparently missed, and that the Nyborg check is worthless. That makes sense enough, but in the film Williamson hands out leads to the salesmen, and actually hands Levene a card with the Nyborg lead. This raises the question of why, even if "the leads are weak," Williamson is handing out cards with leads that he knows for a fact are 100% worthless.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The robber reveals himself with a slip of the tongue. [[spoiler:Levene slips up and reveals he was the robber after Williamson said he cashed Lingk's check. Levene calls Williamson out on lying about it. But last night was the one night in Williamson's entire career that he forgot to take the checks down to the bank to cash them. So the only time Levene could have seen the check was last night, and thus only could have known Williamson was lying about cashing the check if Levene was the one robbed the office.]]

* KickTheDog[=/=]KickTheSonOfABitch:

* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: First place gets a new car, second place gets a set of steak knives, third place is "you're fired". Blake uses this as an attempt at motivation for the salesmen. At the very least, it gets their attention long enough to listen to Blake's speech.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The play is set in Chicago, but the film was shot in New York City and its location is left somewhat ambiguous; while visually there's a strong New York look to the scenes, dialogue mentions Chicago locations and implies that Wisconsin is within driving distance.

* IncompetenceInc: Mitch and Murray come across as this. They leave the Glengarry leads to go stale while forcing their sales staff to waste time on the crappy Rio Rancho leads. Levene even {{Lampshades}} this to Williamson when the latter says that the good leads only go to the best salesmen, asking how the salesmen are expected to improve when their leads are crap. In one of the most memorable scenes in the movie, Roma gives Williamson a devastating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for ruining a big sale, implying that he only got his job due to {{Nepotism}}.

* InformedAbility: Levine was once apparently a highly successful salesman but it's difficult to take that claim seriously from what we see in the movie. His hard-sell tactics completely fall flat with Spannell and as noted under SelectiveObliviousness he completely fails to recognize that both the Spannells and Nyborgs clearly don't have money to invest in real estate even though ''Levine himself'' pointed out multiple times that the leads were weak. Then in ''another'' high pressure situation when he [[spoiler:accidentally outs himself as the one who robbed the office he promptly falls apart, letting slip more information such as the fact that he had an accomplice. Then his attempt to negotiate with Williamson so he doesn't get reported to the police is almost painful to watch.]] Maybe at one point in the past he had the skills of a successful salesman but they're ''long'' gone.

''Glengarry Glen Ross'' is a play by Creator/DavidMamet. It premiered in London in 1983 (later moving to Broadway in 1984) and was adapted into a [[TheFilmOfThePlay 1992 film]] directed by James Foley, starring Creator/AlPacino, Creator/JackLemmon, Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/AlanArkin, Creator/EdHarris and Creator/KevinSpacey.

--> '''Ricky''': You stupid fucking cunt. I'm talking to you, shithead!... Where did you learn your trade, you stupid fucking cunt? You idiot!

* NoNameGiven: Invoked. When Moss asks Blake what his name is, Blake responds "fuck you, that's my name", adding that he drove here in an eighty-thousand dollar BMW, and ''that'' is his name. In fact, the name “Blake” is never uttered in the film, it only appears in the end credits (and we never find out if it’s his first or last name).