In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Weitz
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Actor: David Paymer, Dennis Quaid, Marg Helgenberger, Scarlett Johansson, Topher GraceDirector: Paul Weitz
Brand: Uni
Producer: Paul Weitz
Writer: Paul Weitz
Producer: Andrew Miano
Producer: Chris Weitz
Producer: Kerry Kohansky
Producer: Lawrence Pressman
Producer: Matt Eddy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Entertainly Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
Dan knows how to sell advertising for Sports America. Topher Grace knows Sports America is a cash cow. Topher department takes over sales management of Sports America and Topher keeps with the team becoming the new advertising director.
Topher gained recognition as a member of a marketing team in the Teddy K wireless division selling cell phones to 5 year olds. Success in the cell phone niches launches Topher into success at Sport America as a tags along with the winning team. Once at Sports America Topher takes Dan's job. Topher tells Dan, he is old enough to be his dad. Sudden success for Topher comes at a very destablizing time.
Topher purchases a new porsche and while driving off the lot is hit by an oncoming truck. Topher drives home in his damaged Porsche. Once home, Topher is shocked again by an announcement of separation by his wife - Kim of seven months. Kim walks out on Topher telling him it is over, no more chances. Topher does not want to be alone and so he tags along with Dan, makes a power move by inviting himself too dinner. The dinner is ackward. Alex's sister says, "Your to young to be Dad's boss." Alex enjoys talking with Topher and takes a liking to Topher. Alex likes Topher and Topher can talk honestly with Alex. Age has little to do with the lack of common ground between Topher and Dan and they are worlds apart.
Dan believes in client relationships, niched markets, and employee championing. Dan discovers his wife is pregant, burns his hands when she hands him a hot dish, orders pizza, and misses out on Cubs baseball game and meeting with clients at a dance club instead. Dan doesn't lose his job and decides to take out a second loan against his home too finance Alex college at prestigious NYU. It is at NYU that Topher and Alex meet up again, in a short lived relationship.
Alex is a national champion tennis player. Alex can decides to study poetry and creative writing at NYU rather than play tennis. Alex academic freedom becomes dangerous as she initiates sexual relationship with Topher. Alex decides to make her move once she hears Topher has been divorced. The relationship is kept secret. Dan suspects foul play and tracks them too an expensive NY restaurant. Alex enjoys lunches at expensive restaurants with Topher. Dan confronts both Alex and Topher. Dan punches Topher in the eye. Ironically Dan does not get fired. Alex eventually realizes Dan is right. The relationship between Alex and Topher comes to an abrupt halt. Topher is a marketing genius, who lack of experience hurts him. Alex is a athletic superstar who does use her skills. Both Alex and Topher share some uncertainty about the future together.
The hard hit financial reality imposed Topher because pressing and Topher delegates the pain insisting on Sunday team meetings. Significant change must happen immediately and most of the team has no clue what is expected of them. Topher must increase profits 30 percent making the company look attractive to Teddy K. Dan is forced to work harder than he normal. This is a strain for Dan because Dan is use too comfort. Dan's office is rich with baseball pictures, signature balls, and leather seats. In the past, Dan has treated his employees as equals and the employee view the company like another large family.
Topher imposes his status by moving Dan to a small office, making Dan his second, having Dan reducing staff (Marty and Mark), and for Dan to accept cross promotional advertising. Topher introduces large corporate competitiviness, cynical criticism, and departmental rivalry. Topher is 21 and mimicks the philosophies and words of Teddy K. Dan is skeptical about synergy and think niche marketing works. Dan gets roughed around but eventually returns back to his comfort zone. Dan does not like the large corporate America where the worker is a financial cost ruled by the bottom line. Almost immediately after Topher arrives the staff starts talking about possible firings. The firings are painful, shouting, and accusations of betrayal. Everyone is shocked by the action.
Why so much drama? The Teddy K buyout of Sports America was doomed from the start. The first clue there is trouble begins when one of Sports America's largest client abandons the company. The client tells Dan, they are withdrawing business because Teddy K is a competitor. Sports America is not right for Teddy K.
Towards the end of the movie, Dan stands up to Teddy K and telling him the cross promotion advertising campaign will not work and raises questions about solid business practices that have been ignored. Teddy K tells Dan that he raised an number of important questions and the company should answer them. The audience is shocked and Teddy K exists with shouts of his name. Teddy K seems to have used the publicity to come front and center with the media but never planned to buy the company. The bottom line works two ways. Teddy K looked at the numbers and decided the numbers were weak and abandoned Sports America. Finally, Dan's back in charge and the circus has come to a stop. No more corporate fun.
However, before Teddy K announces he will not be buying Sports America, Dan and Topher must keep their jobs as their boss tells them they are fired. Dan and Topher's suggest they will take a big chunk of business from the company, if they are fired.
Dan is back in control and must convince an old-time client to continue advertising with the company rather than cut costs. The clients wants to know what happened to Tophers eye. Topher tells the client Dan punched him. The client sees that Dan can stand up for himself and this gives the client courage to take back control of his own business and the decision is not to cut costs but continue advertising with Dan.
Topher remarks too Dan, "You really believe this stuff." to which Dan says, "Of course I do." Topher must make the decision to make a honest career. Dan tells him, Topher is a "good man".
Description of In Good Company (Widescreen Edition)
DAN IS HEADED FOR A SHAKEUP. HE IS DEMOTED AT WORK, HIS NEW BOSS, CARTER, IS HALF HIS AGE & HIS WIFE JUST TOLD HIM SHE'SPREGNANT WITH ANOTHER CHILD. DAN & CARTER'S UNEASY FRIENDSHIP IS THROWN INTO JEOPARDY WHEN CARTER FALLS FOR & BEGINS AN AFFAIR WITH DAN'S OLDEST DAUGHTER, ALEX.Nowadays it's rare to find a movie that pays attention to human weakness as well as strength, and that sees a whole person as having both. When a sports magazine gets bought by a media conglomerate, an ad sales executive named Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid, The Rookie) finds himself playing second-in-command to Carter Duryea, a hotshot barely half his age (Topher Grace, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!) whose marriage has just fallen apart. One evening Carter invites himself over to Dan's house to escape his loneliness, where he meets Dan's daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation). The two strike immediate sparks and when they run into each other later in the city, a relationship begins--which they discreetly keep from Dan. But the heart of the movie is not in its plot, but in the way that Dan responds to the news that his wife is pregnant, or how Carter tries to fortify his self-image with a new car. These aren't jokes; the actors inhabit these moments fully and turn them into psychological events. Quaid plays Dan as a simple man, but his straightforwardness feels genuine (rather than a failure of the writer's imagination). Grace and Johansson have terrific chemistry as lovers, but so do Grace and Quaid, both as rivals and as a substitute father and son. In Good Company isn't likely to win any awards, but it's honest and honorable; there's a core of truth to its characters and their problems aren't resolved too neatly. Sometimes, that's worth watching. --Bret Fetzer
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