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Company Man
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual humor and drug content
Starring
Douglas McGrath,
Sigourney Weaver,
John Turturro,
Anthony LaPaglia,
Ryan Phillippe,
Denis Leary,
Woody Allen,
and
Alan Cumming
A satirical romp set in the early sixties, Company Man is the story of a nerdy Connecticut grammar school teacher who stumbles into becoming a legendary international spy hero in an effort to avoid his nagging wife. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Peter Askin
Douglas McGrath
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Askin
Douglas McGrath
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 28, 2001
Video: August 28, 2001
Theatrical: February 16, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
France / UK / USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well-executed gag.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
A few chuckles will be had by both the rabble and more learned brains.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's not that the film is devoid of honestly earned laughs here and there. The problem is that there are too few of them and that the film can't connect them.
38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The scenario looms as a brain-dead invitation for the stars to embarrass themselves, and Company Man wastes little time in fulfilling that glum suspicion.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A painfully flat spoof of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

33
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
If you've always longed to see a Cold War satire done in the hit 'em over the head frantic camp mode of ''Love, American Style,'' then Company Man is the movie for you.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The script, by co-writers and -directors Douglas McGrath and Peter Askin, is intermittently clever, but their direction is leaden and assassinates every gag with a lethal accuracy the CIA could only hope to achieve.

30
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Too often we feel that left-out-in-the-cold draft that blows over the shoulder whenever actors appear to be having more fun than the audience.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Little more than a loose- jointed succession of goofy "Saturday Night Live"-style sketches and sight gags inspired by an actual event that is nearly half a century behind us.

25
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The political movie satire from hell.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
At least one chapter in the yet-to-be-written book "When Bad Movies Happen to Good People" belongs to the folks of Company Man.

20
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.

20
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
A frenetic spoof of 1961's disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, Company Man is likely to be forgotten quickly by audiences.

20
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Unfunny comedy. Nearly everyone is terrible except for Cumming, who just does what comes naturally and steals his every scene.

20
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
If Company Man were a wreck on the interstate, it would involve multiple cars and at least one jackknifed tanker truck, and traffic would be backed up for miles as passing motorists slow to gawk.
20
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The unfunniest comedy I can recall seeing in ages.

20
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
A consistently silly, occasionally funny but mostly forced account of how a mild-mannered teacher from Connecticut unwittingly triggered the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's an arch, awkward, ill-timed, forced political comedy set in 1959 and seemingly stranded there.

12
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A skin-crawlingly unfunny riff on Woody Allen's "Bananas."
10
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Bracingly unfunny.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Deadly dull tripe.


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