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There's a certain kind of boy—and we're not saying it's every boy—who can recite all the words to the Will you go to lunch? scene from Glengarry Glen Ross from memory. Although the 1992 film, featuring an all-star, all-machismo cast filled with the likes of Alan Arkin, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, and Kevin Spacey, was more of a cult-hit than a blockbuster, it has still inspired a pretty devoted (and probably pretty male) group of followers, who have nicknamed the cuss-filled real-estate-agent drama "Death of a Fuckin' Salesman." In the past couple of years, there has been a serious glut of popular (and in some cases, not-so-popular) movies finding their way onto the Toronto stage. CanStage has been a pretty serious offender this season, with one show based on a popular movie, and two others whose runs coincided with their Oscar-nominated adaptations' screen dates. Mirvish's upcoming season seems to be almost entirely populated with shows based on existing popular movies and TV shows. And last night, Soulpepper's stage version of Glengarry Glen Ross opened at the Young Centre. To be fair, David Mamet's Pullitzer Prize–winning play the film was based on debuted on Broadway almost a decade before the film was made, so it may not be entirely fair to include it as an example of this movies-on-stage trend. However, we're sure that more than one person in the crowd last night was wondering when Alec Baldwin's character was going to show up.

It's an interesting week for film, with direct competition between two kinds of films—one that wants to make you feel like a kid again by bludgeoning you with special effects and nostalgic licence, and another that wants to make you feel like a kid again by simply recalling, well, what it was to be a kid.