Vacuum-Cleaner Salesmen (1993)
Gênero : Documentário, Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 57M
Director : John Webster
Sinopse
Three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession in history.
Década de 1960, sete desconhecidos se encontram no El Royale, um hotel degradado perto de Lake Tahoe, Califórnia. Cada um deles tem um segredo obscuro e precisa encontrar redenção durante a noite... antes que tudo vá para o inferno.
Star, uma adolescente que busca viver aventuras, decide se juntar a um caixeiro viajante e cruzar o território do meio-oeste dos Estados Unidos vendendo assinaturas de revistas. No meio da viagem, ela entra em uma loucura de festas, crimes e amores junto com um grupo de desajustados.
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Jim Wormold é um expatriado inglês que está vivendo na Havana pré-revolucionária com sua filha adolescente Milly. Ele é dono de uma loja de aspiradores de pó, mas não é muito bem sucedido, o que faz ele aceitar uma oferta de Hawthorne do Serviço Secreto Britânico para recrutar uma rede de agentes em Cuba. Wormold não tem a menor ideia de por onde começar, mas quando seu amigo Dr. Hasselbacher sugere que o melhor segredo é aquele que ninguém conhece, ele decide criar uma lista de agentes fictícios e começa a fornecer histórias inventadas, o que deixa felizes seus chefes em Londres. Ele logo é visto como o melhor agente do Hemisfério Ocidental, mas tudo começa a desmoronar quando a polícia local decodifica suas mensagens e começa a cercar a sua "rede" de espiões. Ele descobre também que é o alvo de um grupo que quer matá-lo. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
An agent from a distant planet has been sent to earth to ship large quantities of blood to his world, where a plague is ravaging the populace. He comes equipped with an interstellar matter transmitter, telepathic mind-control powers, and deathray-shooting eyes. Because he is also affected by the blood disease, he gains control of the town's physician and has him place a nurse at his disposal, while he collects live humans for fresh blood; but gains the nurse's suspicions, along with those of her boyfriend - a town police officer.
Portland, Oregon, 1955. Apesar de ter nascido com uma paralisia cerebral, que cria limitações na sua fala e movimentos, Bill Porter (William H. Macy) tem todo o apoio da sua mãe para obter um emprego como vendedor na Watkins Company. Bill consegue o emprego, apesar de certa relutância devido às suas limitações, pois teria que ir de porta em porta oferecendo os produtos da companhia. Bill só conseguiu o emprego quando disse para lhe darem a pior rota. Primeiramente Bill é rejeitado pela pessoas "normais", mas ao fazer sua 1ª venda para uma alcóolatra reclusa, Gladys Sullivan (Kathy Baker), ele literalmente não parou mais. Por mais de 40 anos Bill caminhou 16 quilômetros por dia e, para ajudá-lo nesta trajetória, além da sua mãe e Gladys, surgiu Shelly Soomky Brady (Kyra Sedgwick).
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