Cadillac Man
Cast: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Annabella Sciorra.
Director: Roger Donaldson.
Writer: Ken Friedman.
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In Cadillac Man, Robin Williams plays the used-car salesman Joey O’Brien in Queens who never stops looking for business. He often looks for stalled funeral processions to see if he can make a sale, and he will even help load the coffin if he thinks he will make him a sale. As the movie opens, this smooth talking pitchman is being pulled in 5 directions at the same time.
He has an ex wife (Pamela Reed) who keeps begging him for more money, a teenage daughter who stays out all night, and two sticky girlfriends whose names he can’t even keep straight. On top of that, he owes $20,000 to a gangster — and if he can’t sell at least dozen cars within one day, he’s going to be laid-off.
On the day of the dozen car sale (and the final day of O’Brien’s deadline), the car dealership is taken hostage by a motorcyclist played by Tim Robbins, who believes his wife (Annabella Sciorra) is cheating on him. Joey manages to prevent the man from doing any harm to the other hostages, as police surround the dealership.
After most of the hostages are released, the police wound the assailant because they think his gun is still loaded. O’Brien promises to stick with him while he recovers. In the end, he gets back together with his wife and drives off as the hero of the day.
The film reveals Joey as a two faced, womanizing bastard, still it gets you sympathizing for him at the same time. It is easy to understand someone having financial problems, and Joey’s economic desperation is played for frantic laughs.
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