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| Director
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Jay Roach |
| Starring
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Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro,
Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Dustin Hoffman,
Barbra Streisand |
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| The plot of
In Good Company |
In
the wake of a corporate merger, middle-aged ad
exec Dan Foreman (Quaid) is placed under a new
boss (Grace) -- a man half his age, who also happens
to be dating Alex (Johansson), Dan's daughter.
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| In Good Company
Movie Review |
Reviewed by
epinions :
When director Paul Weitz and his brother Chris helmed
2002's About a Boy with co-screenwriter Peter Hedges
based on the Nick Hornsby novel, the movie became a
huge hit with moviegoers and critics where the three
received Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay.
For the Weitz brothers, the success of About a Boy moved
them further away from their raunchy debut with the
1999 teen-sex comedy American Pie. In 2004, Paul Weitz
chooses to go solo with Chris serving as his producer
for another comedy that is in the similar realm of the
younger-older man relationship of About a Boy set into
the soulless world of corporate conglomerates for the
film In Good Company (aka Synergy).
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Review By Culturevulture
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In this youth-obsessed culture, where turnover
is privileged over tenure, and innovation often wins
out over loyalty, it can’t feel good to be deemed
a dinosaur. Whether it’s high-net worth salesmen
on Wall Street busting their asses just to compete with
the new recruits or forties-ish actresses getting pumped
with Botox to stay in the running for the plum sex symbol
roles, the fall from up-and-comer to old hat comes fast
and hard. Eventually, everyone must step aside and let
the “young Turks” take over, and by all
accounts, the transition isn’t easy. In Good Company,
the new film by Paul Weitz, examines this quandary in
sympathetic detail. More..
Reviewed by Images Journal :
Many (if not most) people have some experience with
the effects of corporate takeovers and downsizing. Employees
callously get kicked aside in favor of short-term profits.
Companies get gutted by raiders with little or no understanding
of the companies they're now controlling. This is dark
territory that doesn't present Hollywood with many opportunities
for comedy. So Hollywood has typically stayed away.
Comedies about the corporate experience, such as Mike
Judge's Office Space, are exceedingly rare. So In Good
Company comes as a pleasant surprise. It's a smart and
funny movie that manages to wring witty personal comedy.
more..
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