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Tin Men

Year:

1987

Duration:

112 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.5

Director:

Barry Levinson

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1987-03-13

Filming Locations: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Earnings

Budget: $11,000,000

Opening Weekend: $187,381 (USA) (8 March 1987)

Gross: $25,411,386 (USA) Filming Dates 21 July 1986 Copyright Holder © MCMLXXXVII Touchstone Pictures Related Links

Cast

Actor

Character

Michael Willis

Richard Dreyfuss

Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Danny DeVito

Ernest Tilley

Barbara Hershey

Nora Tilley

John Mahoney

Moe Adams

Jackie Gayle

Sam

Stanley Brock

Gil

Seymour Cassel

Cheese

Bruno Kirby

Mouse

J.T. Walsh

Wing

Richard Portnow

Carly

Matt Craven

Looney

Alan Blumenfeld

Stanley

Brad Sullivan

Masters

Michael Tucker

Bagel

Deirdre O'Connell

Nellie

Sheila McCauley

Ada

Penny Nichols

Mrs. Shubner

Susan Duvall

Suburban Housewife

David DeBoy

Suburban Husband

Florence Moody

Diner Waitress

Myron Citronbaum

Salesman #1 at Hearing

Ralph Tabakin

Mr. Hudson

Norma Posner

Mrs. Hudson

Walt MacPherson

Cadillac Salesman

William C. Godsey

Belvedere Hotel Barman

Roland Gift

Band Member

David Steele

Band Member

Andy Cox

Band Member

Sharon Ziman

Mason Dixon Operator #1

Lois Raymond Munchel

Mason Dixon Operator #2

Kathy Jones

Mason Dixon Operator #3

Cindy Geppi

Social Security Girl #1

Ellen Sills

Social Security Girl #2

Mary Morgan

Social Security Girl #3

Marcia Herr

Social Security Girl #4

Karen Barth

Gibraltar Operator #1

Sharon Crofoot

Gibraltar Operator #2

Geri Lynn Kelbaugh

Gibraltar Operator #3

Lisa Ford

Gibraltar Operator #4

Becky Weidner

Gibraltar Operator #5 (as Rebecca Lucia Weidner)

Patricia Pohlman

Gibraltar Operator #6

Shirley Ann Wilson

Gibraltar Operator #7

Joshua Billings

Man #1 at Crash

Jeffrey Moser

Man #2 at Crash

Freddie Stevens

Piano Bar Crooner

Bill Danoff

Police Officer

Katherine Ellis

Ruthie, Woman Asking BB to Dance

Eva Jean Berg

Woman at Smorgasboard

Todd Jackson

Young Boy

Barbara Rappaport

Coffee Shop Waitress

Theodore Goldman

Pool Hall Worker

Kathleen Goldpaugh

Arguing Wife

Brian Costantini

Arguing Husband

Herb Levinson

Metal Sideing Customer (uncredited)

Chuck Varesko

Process Server (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Some movie posters for this film featured a long blurb that read: "The Year - 1963. Selling the American Dream is a risky, funny business - you could wind up paying with your wife!".

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The bar/restaurant scenes were filmed in the Westview Lounge near Baltimore. During a break in production, Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss gave each other hair cuts in the back parking lot of the restaurant. The restaurant has since been sold and torn down. It is becoming a Walgreens.

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Both of this 1987 movie's two top billed leads, 'Danny de Vito' and Richard Dreyfuss (1st), both had starred in a film opposite actress Bette Midler the previous 1986 year, in Ruthless People (1986) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) respecitvely. Moreover, third billed Barbara Hershey acted opposite Midler the following 1988 year in Beaches (1988). Bette Midler though does not appear in Tin Men (1987).

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Goofs

In this Baltimore-based story, during a scene in the bar, there is a Busch promotional light on the wall. The movie is set in the 1960s, but Busch beer was not licensed for sale in Maryland until the late 1970s.

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During location shots at the Cadillac crash scene the same dark blue Thunderbird passes in the background after several seconds elapse.

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Although the movie takes place in the 1960's, in the car accident scene, two male onlookers are wearing late 1980's style eyeglass frames.

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Quotes

Sam: 'Bonanza' is not an accurate depiction of the west.

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Sam: You know when I saw 'Bonanza' the other day, something occurred to me.

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Sam: [Sam and Tilley go out to bar to celebrate a sale that Tilley has made to break a long dry spell] You know, Tilley, I'm beginning to believe in God.

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