Company Man (2000)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Directors:

Peter Askin
Douglas McGrath

Writers:

Peter Askin (writer)
Douglas McGrath (writer)

Release Date:

3 May 2000 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A high school teacher in the 60s becomes an international spy and becomes involved in a plot to overthrow Fidel Castro. |

Plot Keywords:

Fidel Castro | Ballet Dancer | Marilyn Monroe | Grammar | Bay Of Pigs

Cast

Paul Guilfoyle	...	Officer Hickle
Jeffrey Jones	...	Sen. Biggs
Reathel Bean	...	Sen. Farwood
Harriet Koppel	...	Stenographer
Douglas McGrath	...	Alan Quimp
Sigourney Weaver	...	Daisy Quimp
Terry Beaver	...	Mr. Judge
Sean Dugan	...	Skull and Bones Waiter
Grant Walden	...	Older Man
Nathan Dean	...	Younger Man
John Randolph Jones	...	Fobbs
Ryan Phillippe	...	Petrov
Kim Merrill	...	Woman in Line
Merwin Goldsmith	...	Mr. Brisk
Heather Matarazzo	...	Nora

Also Known As:

Company Man (France)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual humor and drug content.

Runtime:

Argentina:82 min | France:95 min | Germany:86 min | USA:86 min

Country:

France | UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Netherlands:AL | Argentina:13 | France:U | Germany:12 | Spain:T | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Company:

Film Foundry Partners

Trivia:

'Bill Murray' had a cameo in the film, but his appearance was cut.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: When Alan first lands in Cuba in the late 1950s, he flies in on a Cessna Caravan, an aircraft that didn't take its first flight until 1982.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary (2003) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Mambo #8

Hilarious take on the CIA's ineptness

In view of the fact that the CIA is being the fall guy for the Bush gang's insistence on invading Iraq, you'll find this depiction of the beaurocratic idiocies of 'the company' to be truthful AND funny. Woody Allan (why was he unbilled?) gives his all depicting the chief CIA agent in Cuba. While the Revolution goes on all around him, he denies that the people are dissatisfied.

Pee-Wee as Batista (Alan Cumming) is doubly hilarious, since we know of Pee Wee's interesting foibles. The sight of Woody Allen lighting his cigar on a burning pinata of Batista, while denying the Revolution exists, is double-up side-splitting. The bit about playing the American rock and roll songs on the radio as 'code' for the CIA wasn't far from what they actually do.

Maybe it's because I never heard of his movie, it surprised me so. Just wanted to see Dennis Leary in his pre-tough guy days. And that itself is worth the price of the movie, as he gets so frustrated by having his English corrected, he .......can't tell you.

This movie is a really wonderful example of movie-making at its' best when you have a bunch of professionals working together and given great lines. Making it in Puerto Rico was also a nice touch.