Glengarry Glen Ross / American Buffalo

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, 1992, New Line Cinema, 100 min. Dir. James Foley. Al Pacino is the smooth-as-silk office champ and Jack Lemmon is a haunted, pathetic has-been who sees his livelihood slipping away before his very eyes in this tragic yet hilarious dissection of what men will do to survive in a cutthroat business world. Cast also includes Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris and Kevin Spacey.

AMERICAN BUFFALO, 1996, MGM Repertory, 88 min. Dir. Michael Corrente. Three low-level thieves plan an ill-advised robbery. Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz and Sean Nelson are all excellent in this smart, observant character study.