The Big Kahuna (1999)
Directed by John Swanbeck
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
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The rest of the cast is extremely talented as well, Ed Harris "A Beautiful Mind" as Dave Moss, Alan Arkin of "Gattaca" as George Aaronow, Kevin Spacey of "The Big Kahuna," as John Williamson, Alec Baldwin of "Pearl Harbor" as Blake and Jonathan Pryce of "The Suicide Club") as James Lingk.
Based on the play Hospitality Suite, The Big Kahuna joins earlier Spacey projects such as Glengarry Glen Ross and Hurlyburly as a transfer from stage to screen.
Larry and Phil may look the heirs of Willy Loman, or like cousins of the venal, harried real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross , but Kahuna has prey on its mind beyond the dark side of the American Dream.
Think of "The Big Kahuna" as "Glengarry Glen Ross" meets "The Breakfast Club", and you get the idea.
Conceptually, "The Big Kahuna" tries to use the corporate sales industry as a metaphor for the human condition something that has already been done (and done much better) in David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross."
In particular, to his treatment of the dog-eat-dog world of salesmen, "Glengarry Glen Ross".