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Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: Dec 29, 2004
Running Time: 110 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age--a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and "Krispity Krunch", an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex.
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Dan Foreman
Carter Duryea
Alex Foreman
Ann Foreman
Morty
Steckle
Eugene Kalb
Kimberly
Corwin
Enrique Colon
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reviews
PETER TRAVERS -
January 6, 2005
In Ocean's 12, Topher Grace, playing himself, confesses, "I walked through that Dennis Quaid movie." What a liar! As Carter Duryea, 26 -- the new head of sales at Sports America magazine -- Grace is bust-out funny and quietly affecting as the "ninja assassin" brought in by a conglomerate to push aside old-timer Dan Foreman (Quaid), a dinosaur at fifty-one. The T-rex now works for the kid. Carter is too psyched to care about Dan's issues until he falls for Alex (the dazzling Scarlett Johanssen),
The fact this film went through several title changes--first it was Synergy, then Good Company to finally In Good Company--sent up some red flags, but we need not have worried. Under the expert guidance of writer-director Paul Weitz, who brought us the utterly delightful About a Boy, Company's sweet sentimentality easily washes over you. Weitz has a knack for taking something not necessarily original and making it so. For example, taking aim at the old school vs. new school in the corporate
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