Synopsis
Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
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Cast
- Robin WilliamsJoey O'Brien
- Tim RobbinsLarry
- Pamela ReedTina
- Fran DrescherJoy Munchack
- Zack NormanHarry Munchack
- Lori PettyLila
- Annabella SciorraDonna
- Paul GuilfoyleLittle Jack Turgeon
- Bill NelsonBig Jack Turgeon
- Eddie JonesBenny
Recommendations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
Cadillac Man, like the recent I Love You to Death, starts out as comedy on a human scale and turns into canned farce. For an actor like Robin Williams, that’s the movie equivalent of being muzzled. - 63
Boston Globe
Cadillac Man isn't perfect, but it's got enough peppy lowlife turmoil under its hood to pass most of what's on the road these days. [18 May 1990, p.77p] - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Somehow I kept waiting for the movie to get back on track - to get back to the zany comedy I thought I'd been promised. My problems with Cadillac Man were probably inspired more by false expectations than by anything on the screen. - 50
The New York Times
Cadillac Man does not stay long in territory pioneered by Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Mr. Levinson. It turns, rather awkwardly, into a hostage-situation comedy featuring a cuckolded young man named Larry (Tim Robbins). - 50
Time Out
While he's lying through his teeth or improvising a sales pitch that might save his skin, Williams is funny and convincing; but once he starts getting dewy-eyed and sincere, flesh-crawling embarrassment takes over. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Like Larry, Cadillac Man doesn't know quite what it wants to do. At first the film seems to be a low-key comedy about a small-time hustler, then it becomes a kind of Dog Day Afternoon-style melodrama. Ultimately it is an uneasy mix of the two. - 50
Washington Post
In Cadillac Man, the new movie by Roger (No Way Out) Donaldson, Williams certainly has his share of Robin-esque rejoinders, but he never quite reaches the feverish sales pitch most of his fans are likely to expect. - 40
Washington Post
Coarse and haphazardly engineered and never more than intermittently funny.
