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| “In
Good Company” is worth checking out. Complex, funny, and real,
it’s a film about finding our way and it’s a tribute to
those who have helped us to find it. It’s not a bad way to start
the new year! |
(2004) Film Review |
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This page was last updated on
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
and written by Paul Weitz
Cast
(in credits order)
Dennis Quaid .... Dan Foreman
Topher Grace .... Carter Duryea
Scarlett Johansson .... Alex Foreman
Marg Helgenberger .... Ann Foreman
David Paymer .... Morty
Clark Gregg .... Steckle
Philip Baker Hall .... Eugene Kalb
Selma Blair .... Kimberly
Frankie Faison .... Corwin
Ty Burrell .... Enrique Colon
Kevin Chapman .... Lou
Amy Aquino .... Alicia
Zena Grey .... Jana Foreman
Colleen Camp .... Receptionist
Lauren Tom .... Obstetrician
Ron Bottitta .... Porsche Dealer
Jon Collin .... Waiter
Shishir Kurup .... Maitre D'
Tim Edward Rhoze .... Theo
Enrique Castillo .... Hector
John Cho .... Petey
Produced
by
Kerry Kohansky .... associate producer
Rodney M. Liber .... executive producer
Andrew Miano .... executive producer
Chris Weitz .... producer
Paul Weitz .... producer
Original Music by Stephen Trask
Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin
Film Editing by Myron I. Kerstein
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some
sexual content and drug references.
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
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| SYNOPSIS
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 Filmmaker
and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Paul Weitz ("About
a Boy") turns his complex sense of humor on "In Good Company,"
an insightful comedy about the relationship between a 50-year-old
businessman and his new, 26-year-old boss. Dan Foreman (Quaid) is
headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a
major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate
takeover. His new boss, Tom (Grace) is half his age--a business
school prodigy who preaches corporate Synergy. While Dan develops
clients through handshake deals and relationships, Tom cross-promotes
the magazine with the cell phone division and "Krispity Krunch,"
an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both
men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters--Alex,
age 18, and Jana, age 16--and is shocked when his wife tells him
she's pregnant with a new child. Between college tuition, the mortgage
and a new baby, Dan can't afford to lose his job in the wave of
corporate layoffs. Tom, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife
of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Tom's uneasy
friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Tom falls for, and begins
an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex (Johansson). Weitz's examination
of life's surprises, ironies and coincidences combine to form "In
Good Company".
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Review
by
Chris Utley
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50-something
year old Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid), hard working advertising
sales executive for Sports America magazine, is forced to
readjust his life to an ever-changing world. A large corporation
purchases his magazine’s parent company and Dan (and his sales
team) gets a hard and swift introduction to the business concept
called “outsourcing”. After 20-something years
at his post, Dan is now forced to be the “wingman” for
his new boss: 20-something year old Carter Duryea (Topher Grace),
who made his ascent up the corporate ladder marketing cell
phones for kids in one of the many subdivisions of the large
corporation. Carter’s mission: to groom Dan in the concept
of “synergy”—cross promotion of various products
made and manufactured by the same company (in layman’s
terms, synergy would be a Universal Pictures film starring
actors from a Universal TV series with commercials for the
film being advertised endlessly on NBC and watched on a TV
made by General Electric. The catch: General Electric not only
makes the TV, but they also own Universal Pictures, Universal
Television and NBC). To the new owners, Dan and his team are
as ancient as dinosaurs. They are the last of a dying breed
and need to be put out of their misery. Its Carter’s
job to insure that said misery is fulfilled. Not bad for a
20-something hot shot that’s just purchased a new Porsche.
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Review by
KATHY BLEDSOE
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Occasionally
a movie comes along that grabs our attention because we recognize
our own lives being acted out on the screen. We see so much of
ourselves in at least one of the characters that we forget it is
just a story that someone is hoping to make money off of or for
which they would like to win an award. The film becomes like watching
reality TV but with an actual plot and vastly more interesting
dialogue. We find we can really relate on a level that totally
engages and absorbs us so we truly “experience” the
movie. In Good Company is just such a film and with the genius
of timing, this little gem of a film from writer/producer Paul
Weitz is released at the beginning of a new year when everyone
is already thinking about the meaning of their lives.
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Review
by
ELISABETH LEITCH
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In
today’s world, it can sometimes be difficult to see life
as anything more than numbers—numbers that roll across
blue tape at the bottom of television screens, that ping-pong
back and forth between bow-tied authorities on the nightly
news, that glare at us from status reports, and that appear
in the box on the right hand side of our paychecks. Every number
translates to dollars. And in this world of numbers and money,
everything and everyone in life is reduced to a box we can
check or must leave blank—a deduction, an expense, or
(ideally) a source of profit or symbol of our success.
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