Price Check (2012)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 3
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Pete Cozy does his best juggling family life, rising debt and a dead end job, but when his new boss, Susan, a sexy, powerful, human dynamo shows up, Pete is pulled into the maelstrom that is her life and made to work harder than he ever has before. Suddenly, money and opportunities come his way, but at what price? (c) Official Site
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Cast
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Parker Posey
Susan Felders -
Eric Mabius
Pete Cozy -
Annie Parisse
Sara Biltmore-Cozy, Sar... -
Josh Pais
Doug, Doug Cain -
Cheyenne Jackson
Ernie -
Edward Herrmann
Bennington, Jack Bennin... -
Matt Servitto
Jim Brady -
Finn Donoghue
Henry Cozy -
Víctor Cruz
Dave Scalzod -
Amy Schumer
Lila -
Brian Berrebbi
Matt Davis -
Xosha Roquemore
Donna -
Samrat Chakrabarti
Eddie -
Matt Walker
Tony Gomes -
Mylinda Hull
Daphne's Mother -
Marceline Hugot
Mrs. Raphael -
Remy Auberjonois
Todd Kenner -
Faith Sandberg
Bennington's Assistant -
Juan Luis Acevedo
Salesman -
Stephen Kunken
Cartwright -
Stephen Park
Board Member -
Jennifer Mudge
Janis -
John Fugelsang
Jake -
Joseph D'Onofrio
Town Car Driver -
Jayce Bartok
Bobby McCain
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All Critics (23) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (7)
A you-are-there slip-and-slide that follows a supermarket chain's pricing department exec whose life gets upended by a whirlwind new boss.
Top CriticWalker finds a few fresh veins to mine, and some nice performances.
A hilarious Parker Posey provides her customary blast of brittle energy in "Price Check," an engaging corporate comedy.
Parker Posey cuts a ferociously funny swath through Michael Walker's "Price Check," a corporate comedy that tells you more than you ever wanted to know about the hypercompetitive world of retail marketing.
It never feels like Walker seems all that interested in pursuing any of these ideas once he's raised them.
[Posey] inspires. She terrorizes. Whatever it takes to get the job done.
Posey is bravely unlikable and invested in Walker's script, turning Price Check from a mechanical comedic routine about office politics into something complex and occasionally dangerous. I wasn't aware she was even capable of this.
You can usually count on Parker Posey. That said, it's a real shame to watch her admirable talents dry up in the easily forgettable Price Check.
Writer and director Walker posits a theory that unfortunately undermines the entire film: Casting the great Parker Posey as an offbeat character does not automatically make a film a comedy.
The script is teeming with informed jargon about the business of supermarket pricing, and with actors like Posey as its vessel, the dialogue rings with an unlikely blend of fascination and farce.
The latest stinging entry into the reality check stream of movies tackling the financial fallout of the Great Recession in one way or another. But too bad it's an entry into the stream of movies with buffoonish bashing of powerful women as well.
Posey's vivacious energy, mercurial moods, superlative sense of comic timing - all come to the fore in this tasty and dark little comedy about ambition and dreams deferred.
Audience Reviews for Price Check
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- Sara Biltmore-Cozy: You're so happy to go to work these days?
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- Susan Felders: Your such a good guy... why don't ya come up stairs and empregnant me.
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