In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Weitz
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Actor: David Paymer, Dennis Quaid, Marg Helgenberger, Scarlett Johansson, Topher GraceDirector: Paul Weitz
Brand: Universal
Producer: Paul Weitz
Writer: Paul Weitz
Producer: Andrew Miano
Producer: Chris Weitz
Producer: Kerry Kohansky
Producer: Lawrence Pressman
Producer: Matt Eddy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
I hate to pan something that Dennis Quaid (one of my favorite actors) has done but I really have to. Oh, he was fine, as usual. All of the actors did a good job but the problem is that the movie has no point other than that sometimes bigger companies buy up smaller ones and then make poor business decisions. So, like, so what?
The movie was really about the effect it all had on Quaid and his daughter, which wound up being just about nothing. The new, young guy comes in, takes over Quaid's job, Quaid gets demoted, other people get fired, and the young guy starts having an affair with Quaid's daughter. Eventually though the young guy has to trust Quaid. They make a big business deal which turns the corner for the company. The young guy seems to actually be an OK kind of person but then the Big Company decides to sell off the smaller one. The young guy gets canned, Quaid gets promoted to his old job again, the daughter dumps the young guy, and the young guy winds up jogging on a beach in LA, looking for another job. The guys who got canned in the takeover get rehired and everything goes back to the way it was.
Quaid offers the young guy a job but he declines. The young guy meets the daughter in the elevator on the way out. They exchange uncomfortable greetings. She goes on her way. End of story.
You wind up feeling like, "why did I waste 2 hours on this thing?" It wasn't a Tragedy. It wasn't a Comedy. It wasn't uplifting. It didn't have any moral. It was like somebody needed to make a movie, any movie, so they hired Quaid, got a couple of writers, threw together a script over a weekend and away they went. I'm glad I only paid a couple of dollars for this movie.
Summary of In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
Dan is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted at work his new boss carter is half his age & his wife just told him shes pregnant with another child. Dan & carters uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when carter falls for & begins an affair with dans oldest daughter alex. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/04/2008 Starring: Dennis Quaid Topher Grace Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg13Nowadays it's rare to find a movie that pays attention to human weakness as well as strength, and that sees a whole person as having both. When a sports magazine gets bought by a media conglomerate, an ad sales executive named Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid, The Rookie) finds himself playing second-in-command to Carter Duryea, a hotshot barely half his age (Topher Grace, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!) whose marriage has just fallen apart. One evening Carter invites himself over to Dan's house to escape his loneliness, where he meets Dan's daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation). The two strike immediate sparks and when they run into each other later in the city, a relationship begins--which they discreetly keep from Dan. But the heart of the movie is not in its plot, but in the way that Dan responds to the news that his wife is pregnant, or how Carter tries to fortify his self-image with a new car. These aren't jokes; the actors inhabit these moments fully and turn them into psychological events. Quaid plays Dan as a simple man, but his straightforwardness feels genuine (rather than a failure of the writer's imagination). Grace and Johansson have terrific chemistry as lovers, but so do Grace and Quaid, both as rivals and as a substitute father and son. In Good Company isn't likely to win any awards, but it's honest and honorable; there's a core of truth to its characters and their problems aren't resolved too neatly. Sometimes, that's worth watching. --Bret Fetzer
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