A highly stylised staging for American TV of Arthur Miller's poignant Pulitzer prize-winning play, centring on an ageing travelling salesman (Dustin Hoffman) facing the fact that his career and family life have been a failure. Hoffman and John Malkovich savour their exchanges as father and son (they both won Emmys), and while the flimsy sets are off-putting at first, they do help you focus on the uniformly excellent performances.
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