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Release Date:
12 February 1993 (USA)
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Tagline:
Don't get mad. Get promoted.
Plot:
A cookie company takeover has employees scrambling to make a case for continued employment. An executive's...
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1 win
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Ludicrous But Entertaining Enough
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Timothy Hutton | ... | Peter Derns |
 | Lara Flynn Boyle | ... | Kris Bolin |
 | Dwight Schultz | ... | Roger Jasser |
 | Oliver Platt | ... | Jack Hartsell |
 | Steven Weber | ... | Brad Montroe |
| Colleen Flynn | ... | Sara Meinhold |
 | Faye Dunaway | ... | Charlene Towne |
| Scott Coffey | ... | Lance |
| Dakin Matthews | ... | Dr. Feldman |
 | Maura Tierney | ... | Sharon Derns |
 | Lin Shaye | ... | Rosemary |
| Michael Winters | ... | Mercer |
| Daniel C. Swanson | ... | Nathan Derns |
| Demene E. Hall | ... | Marla Higgins |
 | Jesse Vint | ... | Larry |
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Iceland:14 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Germany:12 |
South Korea:18 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The role played by Faye Dunaway was first offered to Diane Ladd: Dunaway and Ladd had both appeared in the film Chinatown (1974) in which Ladd's character impersonates Dunaway's. Dunaway was given the role as she was agreeable to a lesser fee than that asked by Ladd and also did not wish the star billing which Ladd did.
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Errors in geography: Though the movie takes place in Portland, Oregon, one of the characters is listening to a Seattle radio station, which would not transmit in Portland.
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Quotes:
Charlene Towne:
[gasping] The picture! The picture!
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Movie Connections:
Features "The Arsenio Hall Show" (1989)
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Soundtrack:
It Ain't Country
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The stalker from hell was the most popular plot in Hollywood in the early 1990s . In fact come to think of it , it was probably the only Hollywood plot in those days . Never a week went by without a major film studio releasing film featuring a spurned lover from hell , a lodger from hell , a cop from hell a flatmate from hell etc . What I didn`t know was that there was a personal assistant from hell film called THE TEMP untill I saw it on TV the other night .
I`ve got to admit I`ve got a soft spot for these type of movies even though they`re all the same . As you`d expect THE TEMP plays out like the rest of them with an everyman character finding his life falling apart with the climax involving a physical life or death struggle . Timothy Hutton plays the everyman character fairly well in this , and the final scene isn`t as how you`d expect it . Without doubt the best scene involves some public samples of biscuits .
If you like these type of movies you`ll like THE TEMP . If not you won`t