Product Description

Eddie is an aging traveling diamond salesman working the back roads of Pennsylvania. He’s developed longstanding relationships with his clients and prides himself in his knowledge of the trade. After a heart attack, management deems him too high a risk to be carrying the expensive collection of diamonds. His last assignment is to train a rookie salesman, Bobby, whose cocky sales tactics promise to estrange Eddie's long-standing clientele. Needless to say, the relationship between the two men gets off to a rocky start but eventually, the two find that each has something valuable to offer the other.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32179 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2003-02-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

About the Actor
When pundits say that just being nominated for an Academy Award® is tantamount to winning, they must have had actor Robert Forster in mind. His role as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown was a landmark performance and helped revive a career, which Forster has described as having "a five year upwards first act and a 25 year sliding second act." His performance garnered universally great critical acclaim, but even more importantly, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. It has turned around a career that started over 30 years ago and put him suddenly in great demand.

Customer Reviews

A real sleeper--well-written, superbly acted.
"Diamond Men" is one of those low-budget charmers that inhabits its own little world, far away from Hollywood glitz, and does so very persuasively. Eddie, a diamond salesman with 30 years' experience, can no longer get insured for the road after a heart attack, so his only chance to stay in business is to train his young, hotdogging replacement, Bobby. The first half of the movie is about the clash between wise, low-key Eddie and brash, fun-loving Bobby, and the unlikely friendship that arises between them. The second half--most of which takes place, improbably, in a backwoods massage parlor--has more to do with the reawakening of love and hope. Unfortunately, it also leads to a twist ending that feels rather cheap after the sharp authenticity of what has come before. One could also complain about the low budget showing in the occasionally rough photography and editing. Nevertheless, "Diamond Men" is well worth seeing for its needle-sharp dialogue and memorable characters. The lead performers are superb. Robert Forster--an actor who projects both imperturbable cool and rock-solid decency--is the perfect Eddie, and Donnie Wahlberg--Mark's brother and a former New Kid on the Block--is the archetypal lovable scamp as Bobby.

Diamond Men is a real gem
I particularly liked this movie because it is a strong and interesting story about people I could know. Its not set in some fantasy world, but in small town America. It addresses real problems that we encounter;like losing your job and having to train your younger replacement, with empathy and wit and keen psychological insight. Its only weakness is that it is not slickly filmed, but the content and acting performances far outweight the cinematic special effects.
Its a film I have thought about a lot since I first viewed it last summer at a preview for a film class I attend. I have since voted it my personal favorite film for the year of all the films we viewed.

Diamond Men
One of the best movies I've seen in a very long time. The changing relationship between the seasoned, but soon to be unemployed diamond salesman, and the brash young man he is asked to train as his replacement is developed beautifully. Forster and Wahlberg are superb! Bess Armstrong as a not-so-young woman with a questionable past plays the part to perfection and is just as beautiful as she was twenty years ago. She, as Katie, and the young but quick learner replacement both play sensitive roles in bringing back the meaning of life to the older salesman.
This is a "don't miss" movie from the opening credits to the surprise ending. I hope it goes to videotape when the movie run is finished.