Product Details

• Actors: John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman, Margaret Colin, John Glover, John M. Jackson
• Directors: Irvin Kershner
• Writers: David Taylor
• Producers: David Taylor, Fred Baron, Thomas M. Hammel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007TKNEM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,771 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "John Lithgow Traveling Man" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Ben was once top salesman in his territory - but not any more. To snap him out of it, Ben is teamed with a young rookie, and their routine sales trip soon takes a number of outrageous and unplanned detours. The comedy that proves it's never too late to find love and happiness - you just have to take the right exit.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Lithgow Rules!! Superb Salesman Comedy!!, February 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Traveling Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

John Lithgow rules as he stars in this superb salesman comedy portraying a traveling salesman being teamed up with an aggressive rookie salesman and the trials and tribulations they have to face on the way. It's a must see!!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i really, really love this movie, April 18, 2005

By	Nancy Dixon "John Lithgow Lover" (Italy, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

hey i really love this movie. really i only like it because John Lithgow is in it. i love John Lithgow. my friends call me John Lithgow Lover. but anyways it is really an awesome flick.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT A GRAM OF REALITY IN IT., February 7, 2005

By	Rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Traveling Man [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A worthy assemblage is gathered for this film produced for cable television, with some first-rate players and excellent technicians aboard under the guidance of a capable director, yet this work lacks those attributes necessary for artistic success. A primary cause for this failure, as is so often the case, is a tritely created script that apparently causes director Irvin Kershner to lose heart in the proceedings, as the action and dialogue are so consistently fanciful and undeveloped that there is little justification for his attending to details or trying to establish a point of view among the discontinuity from within the foolish scenario. As the eponymous lead is John Lithgow as Ben Clewett, a salesman of industrial foam who has lost some of his edge, resulting in his being paired by his district manager (John Glover) with a neophyte drummer, Billy Fox (Jonathan Silverman), but their initial road trip becomes complicated when it is apparent that Billy is trying to garner Ben's position as his firm's premier huckster. While the duo is in a New Orleans gyrating with its Mardi Gras, Ben meets a young woman, Joanna (Margaret Colin) and they unexpectedly fall in love as depicted in a series of unconvincing scenes, whereafter the veteran road hawker must decide if he should continue to pursue a vocation that continues to ebb, or run off with his new love to her home city (Seattle) to begin anew. Lithgow is pleasing to watch, and he tries to overcome his banal lines, but Silverman's capricious accent serves but to accentuate his miscasting as a man from the Deep South, while Glover is interesting as ever to observe, but should have been toned down as his lack of range in this role becomes wearing. Filming takes place in an Atlanta and a New Orleans that even the most privileged of tourists rarely experience, but happily effects of haphazard direction and uneven editing are salved to an extent by the score of Miles Goodman, whose idiomatic Dixie based jazz rhythms help to bring about faith in the genuineness of motivation within the tired storyline that simply is not there.