Director Barry Levinson returns to his beloved Baltimore with 'Tim Men', a film about two salesmen at war in the early 1960s. Neither are very attractive characters, but both are well drawn: the film contains a fair few funny lines (although few laugh out loud moments), and there's a note of poignancy in the end. Yet overall the film is too stylised to work wholly as a character study and plotted (intentionally) with insufficient slickness to work as a comedy thriller. The result is a low key exercise in nostalgia, kept entertaining by (especially) Danny de Vito but hard to really care about, by no means awful but more like a side story than the main event.
Review of Tin Men
