The Promotion
by Steve Conrad
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Actor: Adrian Martinez, Chris Conrad, John C. Reilly, Rick Gonzalez, Seann William ScottDirector: Steve Conrad
Cinematographer: Lawrence Sher
Writer: Steve Conrad
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Christina Varotsis
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Jessika Borsiczky Goyer
Producer: Steven A. Jones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of The Promotion
Movie Review: Not for Me
Summary: 5 Stars
Figuring the stars in the movie i thought this would be hilarious but FOR ME it just wasnt all that. I think Shean Scott and John Reilly ar every funny actors but this move just felt long and uncomfortable. To Me at least
Summary of The Promotion
In a hilarious take on life in mid-management hell, two junior managers at a Chicago grocery store vie for a coveted promotion, while their wives and their co-workers can only stand back and watch how far the one-upmanship will go to get the job done.In its low-key, offbeat way, The Promotion represents such a relief from the onslaught of raucous, anything-for-a-yok comedies that one can't help feeling grateful. This directorial debut of Steve Conrad, who wrote the Will Smith comedy-drama The Pursuit of Happyness, offers a lot to like--ingratiating performances, some funny scenes and knowing touches, and actually being about something: the real-world dilemmas that go with needing a job and having a hard time getting or hanging on to one. But "low-key" is a friendly way of saying the movie's a mite slack, and the trouble with "offbeat" is that you can't always be sure there is a beat. Chief location is a scuffed-up supermarket in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood "where customers come first, even customers who are nuts," and local youth in the parking lot bedevil shoppers and staff out of boredom. The assistant manager, Doug (Seann William Scott, far from Stiffler mode), aspires to be given charge of a new, slightly more upscale market the company is opening. He's encouraged to believe he has the inside track--except who's this guy Richard (John C. Reilly), freshly emigrated from Canada and suddenly competing for the promotion in a deferential, north-of-the-border fashion that can't even be called passive-aggressive?
The stars deliver shaded performances that never turn buffoonish--even Reilly's aria of comic desperation in which the phrase "bad apples" takes an irretrievably ruinous turn as he speaks with some black civic leaders. They get yeoman support from Jenna Fischer and Lili Taylor in the underwritten roles of the rivals' wives, Fred Armisen as the guys' feckless superior, Gil Bellows as a psychobabbly corporate exec, and Jason Bateman in a cameo as a motivational speaker working a company picnic. --Richard T. Jameson
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