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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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Even an out-of-the -concrete-jungle Woody Allen can hardly liven up the pace here.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
03/09/01
E! Online

McGrath is an OK performer, but he can't carry a film.

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03/08/01
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
New Times

One can't help but recall Bananas and long for the days when insipid wasn't taken to be inspired, and fatuous wasn't assumed to be funny.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
03/08/01
Arthur Salm
Arthur Salm
San Diego Union-Tribune

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

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
09/03/02
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

The tone is relentlessly frenetic and stupidly juvenile.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
03/09/01
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies
N/R

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Full Review Source: eye WEEKLY | comment Comment
03/20/01
Catharine Tunnacliffe
Catharine Tunnacliffe
eye WEEKLY

In 2001, the political satire in Company Man has about as much relevance as listening to Mort Sahl tell Eisenhower jokes.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
03/09/01
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

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)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

This is a light comedy that uses a sledgehammer when a fly swatter would have done just fine.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
03/08/01
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press
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Company Man is one of the year's early treasures.

Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine | comment Comment
02/20/01
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

The rapid-fire gags are relentlessly cute and announce themselves with all the subtlety of a pounding headache.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
03/16/01
Cody Clark
Cody Clark
Mr. Showbiz
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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
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Most of the gags seem mistimed or misconceived.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
03/08/01
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Citysearch

McGrath cowrote Bullets over Broadway and directed Emma. Peter Askin directed the stage version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. So why is this movie so bad?

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
03/08/01
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

An unusually annoying experience for viewers who might be expecting more fireworks in their satire.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
03/08/01
David Hunter
David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
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Makes your wristwatch feel like a sundial.

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03/08/01
Desmond Ryan
Desmond Ryan
Philadelphia Inquirer

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

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
04/12/01
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

McGrath can't decide if he wants the movie to be a satire or a broad farce.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
04/26/01
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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A lamentably incompetent spy send up…a lame period comedy stalled in neutral and filled with drop dreadful jokes rejected from Get Smart! and disbarred vaudeville routines.

Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | comment Comment
03/12/01
Elias Savada
Elias Savada
Nitrate Online

Well-intentioned but utterly misguided.

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03/08/01
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
Film.com
 
 
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