In this film, we are introduced to three
industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.
Three
salesmen working for a firm that makes
industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's «hospitality suite» at a manufacturers» convention for a «big kahuna» named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.