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Dan Foreman (DENNIS QUAID) 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 (TOPHER GRACE), is half his age a business school prodigy who is being groomed for his next rung up the corporate ladder.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. Between college tuition, the mortgage and a new baby, Dan can't afford to lose his job. 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 Dan's daughter Alex (SCARLETT JOHANNSON).All in all, life for both Dan and Carter and their tenuous corporate relationship, just got a bit more complicated.
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CRITIC REVIEWS
Lew Irwin
Remember the name Topher Grace, the critics all seem to be suggesting in their reviews of In Good Company (even if the name is the least likely to be lifted onto theater marquees since Arnold Schwarzenegger). A star is born, writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post, adding that Grace (from TV's That '70s Show) is charming, funny and involving throughout. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times begins her review this way: The 26-year-old actor Topher Grace has the narrow build and jumpy bones of a young man still growing into his adult body, so much so that even when standing at rest, he seems poised to take a leap forward. That makes him an ideal fit for the nimble, engagingly lightweight drama In Good Company. Dennis Quaid is also nabbing some fine critical notices for his performance in the movie. Quaid's performance is amazingly good in a movie that won't set the world on fire, comments Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News. And Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News concludes that the movie belongs to Quaid, masterful in his comic timing, reaction shots and scenes of physical comedy. It's one of the year's great acting turns.
Lew Irwin
Reviews of In Good Company
are of the a-star-is-born sort, with most critics discovering the acting abilities of Topher Grace of TV's That '70s Show. Jami Bernard remarks that Grace pulls his character up from what could have been a clich??. Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post calls the performance a promising big-movie turn. Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times observes that with the movie, Grace has the chance to display what looks to be one of the most persuasive comic touches of his generation. There is a lightness to the actor that wears surprisingly well, plus the ability to be pleasant without being sappy and gloat without being irritating. Careers have been built on considerably less. Other critics write glowingly of the chemistry between Grace and co-star Dennis Quaid. Allison Benedikt in the Chicago Tribune comments that Grace and Quaid imbue what could have been caricatures ... with heart, intelligence and great comic timing. And Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News focuses his attention on Quaid. The film, he says, belongs to Quaid, masterful in his comic timing, reaction shots and scenes of physical comedy. It's one of the year's great acting turns. The movie itself receives only so-so notices. Writes Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal: As satire or even insightful social commentary, the movie is a bust. Luckily, there's good work by both Grace and Quaid.
Reviewed by: meatballshiva on 10/11/2005 6:07:09 PM
An interesting situation for a story to center around. I found it entertaining.
Lew Irwin
Remember the name Topher Grace, the critics all seem to be suggesting in their reviews of In Good Company (even if the name is the least likely to be lifted onto theater marquees since Arnold Schwarzenegger). A star is born, writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post, adding that Grace (from TV's That '70s Show) is charming, funny and involving throughout. Manohla Dargis in the New York Times begins her review this way: The 26-year-old actor Topher Grace has the narrow build and jumpy bones of a young man still growing into his adult body, so much so that even when standing at rest, he seems poised to take a leap forward. That makes him an ideal fit for the nimble, engagingly lightweight drama In Good Company. Dennis Quaid is also nabbing some fine critical notices for his performance in the movie. Quaid's performance is amazingly good in a movie that won't set the world on fire, comments Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News. And Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News concludes that the movie belongs to Quaid, masterful in his comic timing, reaction shots and scenes of physical comedy. It's one of the year's great acting turns.
Reviewed by: meatballshiva on 10/11/2005 6:07:09 PM
An interesting situation for a story to center around. I found it entertaining.
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Reviewed by: meatballshiva on 10/11/2005 6:07:09 PM
Reviewed by: punkypower on 9/3/2005 8:13:20 PM
Funny and thoughtful, well-paced.
Reviewed by: Xstream1st on 8/18/2005 12:50:08 AM
SCARLETT JOHANNSON ... oh we are supposed to be reviewing the movie not the actress?
Reviewed by: stlouisguy32 on 7/29/2005 11:02:02 PM
A potentially great film that succumbs to the typical, uninspiredHollywood plotline.For the first half hour of???In Good Company???it seems we are in for a real treat.Topher Grace is outstanding as the young, overly-ambitious Carter. The story of corporate suck-up, Carter Duryea,trying to overcome his inexperience and self doubts when he is tapped torun the New York office of a sports magazine and the turmoil among the older, wiser employees he creates is enough to carrythis ship. Unfortunately we get lost at sea as the storyline sinks into a predictable and ultimately unrewarding romance between the young Carter and the daughter of Dan Foreman (Quaid), the 51-year-old head of ad sales at the magazine, who is forced to give up his office to make room for the unseasoned yet arrogant Carter. Presumably, Carter???s fling with the college-aged Alex Foreman (Johansson)is designed to create the film???s biggest laughs as they both scheme to keep their affair secret from dad. This is where ???In Good Company??? fails miserably. What we are left with is the inevitable confrontation when Dan discovers Carter is dating his daughter.All you need to know about this is that it ends with Carter getting a black eye in a restaurant.Did I mention this movie is predictable? In the end, Alex decides to start dating other men, Dan gets his old office back and Carter, transformed by the power of love, becomes a new man and gives up life in the corporate jungle.Oh yeah, Dan and Carter form a new friendship thanks to their time together in the trenches. This film had all the right ingredients to be just as good, if not better, than the Oscar-nominated ???Working Girl,??? probably the definitive office comedy.A better end result would have almost certainly garnered Grace a nomination for Best Actor. The same cannot be said for Quaid, who seems to be phoning this one in.A scene in which Dan believes Carter is about to fire him yields a bizarre performance from Quaid, who appears to be imitating Jack Nicholson. Sticking to the stronger plotline, dumping the needless and uninspired Carter/Alex romance (or at least doing more with it) and tying up some other lose ends would have made ???In Good Company??? an enduring American comedy classic.
Reviewed by: kennyseto on 7/29/2005 10:28:44 PM
Reviewed by: marak on 7/25/2005 4:34:46 AM
Great movie...I agree with Paul on this one. It was an akward ending. A sneek peek of real corporate flip flop. A good twist to an end.
Reviewed by: ferrari62589 on 7/6/2005 10:32:05 AM
Great movie! only thing I wish the ending was better, it seem sort of akward.
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