Great Scenes: Alec Baldwin’s speech – Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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There are many great scenes that I consider my favourites, and I love watching Glengarry Glen Ross for its fantastic cast and acting performances. This 1992 film, adapted from a Pulitzer prize winning play of the same name, follows a group of real estate salesmen on the brink of getting fired, and their use of foul office politics to retain their job in relentless and cutthroat corporate US.

Hardly leaving one location, the film relies on its fantastic script and the powerful array of acting performances. With a crazy good cast of Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin and Alec Baldwin, this is an acting powerhouse that delivers the most fantastic scenes. Pacino has an amazing monologue in a bar, but the speech by Baldwin in the following monologue is just absolutely brilliant:

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