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Tin Men: Music, Cast & Plot

Tin Men is a 1987 American comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson, produced by Mark Johnson, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito and Barbara Hershey. It is the second of Levinson's tetralogy of films set in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, along with Diner (1982), Avalon (1990) and Liberty…

Language: English [EN]

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Tin Men topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Cast and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around Tin Men.

Related topics: 43
Source areas: 6
Connected nodes: 49
Extracted relationships: 41
Concept neighborhoods: 17
Bridge connections: 49

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Cast · 15 topics

Overview · 11 topics

Plot · 8 topics

Music · 4 topics

Reception · 4 topics

Production · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office: $25.4 million
Budget: $11 million
Cinematography: Peter Sova
Country: United States
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Distributed by: Buena Vista Distribution

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Overview

Plot

Door-to-door
Aluminum siding Siding (construction)
Con man
Cadillac
Right of way
IRS
Pool Eight-ball
Maryland Home Improvement Commission Maryland Department of Labor

Cast

John Mahoney
Jackie Gayle
Stanley Brock
Seymour Cassel
Bruno Kirby
J. T. Walsh
Richard Portnow
Matt Craven
Alan Blumenfeld
Brad Sullivan
Michael Tucker Michael Tucker (actor)
Deirdre O'Connell Deirdre O'Connell (actress)
Michael Willis Michael Willis (actor)
Tootsie Duvall
Fine Young Cannibals

Production

Steve Buscemi

Music

House band
Soundtrack
Good Thing Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals song)
Billboard Hot 100

Reception

Review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
Weighted average Weighted arithmetic mean

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Tin Men connects Entity context

The extracted context around Tin Men shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Tin Men → After BB, Babowsky, Baltimore, BB, BB's, Bill, Both, Cadillac, Ernest Tilley, Immediately, Maryland, Nora, The, Though Tilley, Tilley, Tilley's Another extracted example is Tin Men → Barbara Hershey, Danny DeVito, Richard Dreyfuss. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Tin Men

Top relations

related to Plot · 16

Tin Men → After BB, Babowsky, Baltimore, BB, BB's, Bill, Both, Cadillac, Ernest Tilley, Immediately, Maryland, Nora, The, Though Tilley, Tilley, Tilley's

Starring · 3

Tin Men → Barbara Hershey, Danny DeVito, Richard Dreyfuss

related to External links · 3

Tin Men → Box Office Mojo, IMDbTin Men, Rotten TomatoesTin Men

related to Reception · 3

Tin Men → Metacritic, On, Rotten Tomatoes

Production companies · 2

Tin Men → Silver Screen Partners II, Touchstone Pictures

Box office · 1

Tin Men → $25.4 million

Budget · 1

Tin Men → $11 million

Cinematography · 1

Tin Men → Peter Sova

Country · 1

Tin Men → United States

Directed by · 1

Tin Men → Barry Levinson

Important terminology

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Important terminology

men tilley bb nora tin richard young dreyfuss danny devito barbara hershey film maryland baltimore fine cannibals written directed barry

Tin Men relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 41 structured relationships around Tin Men. Examples in this analysis include Tin Men → Box office → $25.4 million and Tin Men → Budget → $11 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Tin Men	Box office	$25.4 million	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Budget	$11 million	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Cinematography	Peter Sova	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Country	United States	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Directed by	Barry Levinson	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Edited by	Stu Linder	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Language	English	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Music by	Fine Young Cannibals	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Produced by	Mark Johnson	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Production companies	Touchstone Pictures	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Production companies	Silver Screen Partners II	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Release date	March 6, 1987 (1987-03-06)	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Running time	112 minutes	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Starring	Richard Dreyfuss	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Starring	Danny DeVito	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Starring	Barbara Hershey	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	Written by	Barry Levinson	1.00	infobox
Tin Men	is a	1987 American comedy film written and directed by Barry Levinson	0.90	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Tin Men bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Barry, Box and Directed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Tin Men
- Barry
- Box
- Directed
- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
- Office
- Produced
- Starring
- Written
- Tin
- Barbara
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- Box
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- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
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- Produced
- Starring
- Written
- Tin
- Barbara
barry levinson
- Directed
- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
- Produced
- Starring
- Written
- Barbara
- Danny
- Devito
- Dreyfuss
- Hershey
mark johnson
- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
- Produced
- Starring
- Written
- Barbara
- Danny
- Devito
- Dreyfuss
- Hershey
- Music
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- Barbara
- Danny
- Devito
- Hershey
- Dreyfuss
- Richard
- Babowsky
- Bill
- Ernest
- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
danny devito
- Barbara
- Devito
- Dreyfuss
- Hershey
- Richard
- Babowsky
- Bill
- Directed
- Ernest
- Johnson
- Levinson
- Mark
barbara hershey
- Danny
- Devito
- Dreyfuss
- Hershey
- Richard
- Babowsky
- Barry
- Bill
- Directed
- Ernest
- Johnson
- Levinson
baltimore
- Maryland
- Avalon
- Diner
- Music
- Production
- Tetralogy
- Babowsky
- Barry
- Bill
- Box
- Close
- Directed

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Tin Men, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Tin Men with Cast. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Tin Men — Cast · splits 34 ⟂ 16

Tin Men — Overview · splits 38 ⟂ 12

Tin Men — Plot · splits 41 ⟂ 9

Tin Men — Music · splits 45 ⟂ 5

Tin Men — Reception · splits 45 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Tin Men

Nodes50

Edges49

Triples41

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.04

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Tin Men to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Cast & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Tin Men · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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