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Company Man (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 62

Fresh: 9

Rotten:53

Average Rating: 3.3/10

Consensus: A flat and misconceived movie with big stars.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual humor and drug content

Runtime: 81 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is... COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his gift to society. Quimp's grasping wife, Daisy (Sigourney Weaver), however, has higher aspirations for him. In classic THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT mode, Daisy desires a highly paid husband who can provide a better lifestyle. Desperate to impress her, Quimp pretends to have a secret life as a CIA agent. When Quimp accidentally helps a visiting Russian dancer, Petrov (Ryan Phillipe) defect, the CIA actually does hire him, so they can claim credit. "The Company" ships Quimp off to Havana, Cuba, where Agent Fry (Denis Leary) and Chief Lowther (Woody Allen)--who has some of the film's funniest lines--studiously ignore the impending revolution. However, when Fidel Castro (Anthony LaPaglia) overthrows General Batista (Alan Cumming), the fanatical, chest-bumping Agent Johnson (John Turturro) convinces Quimp to help him assassinate the Cuban dictator. With hilarious performances from Allen and Turturro, COMPANY MAN puts a slapstick, revisionist spin on Castro's rise to power. [More]

Starring: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Denis Leary

Starring: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Denis Leary, Alan Cumming, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Matarazzo, Anthony LaPaglia

Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath

Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Screenwriter: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Producer: John Penotti, James W. Skotchdopole, Rick Leed
Studio: Paramount Classics

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There's an air of old-fashioned, if somewhat stale, innocence that hovers over "Company Man " as its singular saving grace for being merely a jumble of bland sketch comedy skits.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
05/19/09
Cole Smithey
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The so-called jokes and gimmicks seem recycled from the worst of the 1960s.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
02/22/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Emanuel Levy
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09/26/03
Tony Toscano
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

A breezy, originally plotted film... [sunk] by its jitterbug tone and McGrath's jittery screen presence.

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09/03/02
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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McGrath aims for the humor of early Woody Allen. He doesn't even achieve the humor of early Austin Powers.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
06/20/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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03/24/02
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

Wit is drowned out by caricature, and the antics become laboriously over-the-top.

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10/11/01
Michael Dequina
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09/10/01
Ryan Cracknell
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Glenn Kenny
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04/30/01
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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McGrath can't decide if he wants the movie to be a satire or a broad farce.

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04/26/01
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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With its incredible vanishing hero and its forgettable jokes, there's nothing to stick with you, nothing that sticks out enough to recommend.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/12/01
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The story is thin, and the film looks as if it was thrown together on a whim.

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04/12/01
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Given the disastrous state of the final product, it's hard not to wonder if it was worth all the blood, sweat and celluloid.

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04/12/01
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News
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I'm astonished that even at 81 minutes the film contained not even one little chuckle.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
04/05/01
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The quality of jokes in Company Man can be divided into three categories -- lame, lamer and lamest.

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03/27/01
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

This movie looks and feels so retro, so unrelentingly unironic, that the very guilelessness of it makes you want to giggle.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
03/23/01
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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