Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/29/2004(USA
Release Date: 07/24/2007
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poignant
comedy drama.
Dan Foreman (
Dennis Quaid) is a middle-aged man who has spent 20 years as the head of advertising sales for
Sports America, a leading athletics magazine.
Dan is happily married to
Ann (
Marg Helgenberger) and has a college-age daughter,
Alex (
Scarlett Johansson), whom he dotes on, but
Dan's comfortable life is given a major shake-up when a large multimedia firm buys the magazine. Seen as a bit long in the tooth to be truly competitive,
Dan is demoted to second in command of advertising, and his position is handed over to
Carter Duryea (
Topher Grace), a 26-year-old who talks a good game about sales but has no practical experience in the field.
Dan's wounded ego makes working with the arrogant
Carter an uphill battle, but when he learns that
Ann is expecting another baby,
Dan is in no position to quit. Before long,
Dan becomes aware of
Carter's intense insecurities about his new job as the younger man reaches out to him for guidance, but this doesn't make
Dan any less angry when
Carter begins a romance with
Alex after his marriage to
Kimberley (
Selma Blair) crashes and burns.
In Good Company marked the solo directorial debut of
Paul Weitz; he previously worked in collaboration with his brother
Chris Weitz, who serves as producer on this film.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
