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- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
Summary A headhunter whose life revolves around closing deals in a a survival-of-the-fittest boiler room, battles his top rival for control of their job placement company -- his dream of owning the company clashing with the needs of his family.
Directed By: Mark Williams
Written By: Bill Dubuque
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
- 2017
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 48 m
A Family Man
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5.6
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Summary A headhunter whose life revolves around closing deals in a a survival-of-the-fittest boiler room, battles his top rival for control of their job placement company -- his dream of owning the company clashing with the needs of his family.
Directed By: Mark Williams
Written By: Bill Dubuque
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Mixed
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71% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
21
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
71% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
It is still Gerard Butler who keeps it all afloat, negotiating rough waters with superior skill.
Whenever the movie reaches for poetry it lands somewhere in a chain drugstore's greeting card aisle, trying to choose between one that shows an adorable child laughing in a Photoshopped field of sunlit daisies, one that tries for gallows humor but isn't really that funny, and a third with a quote about mortality and wisdom only seems thoughtful because it's written in cursive.
Screenwriter Bill Dubuque — forget that name — illustrates Dane’s sense of responsibility and victimhood by scribbling the clunkiest, clumsiest, most tin-eared “sex” scene in the history of the big screen. If that online screenwriting course offers a refund, pal, GRAB it.
Sparing no maudlin contrivance in a quest to jerk tears that remain stubbornly dry, this hokum is slickly executed by producer Mark Williams in his feature directorial debut. But the result never rises above polished plastic, formulaic, and pedestrian.
It’s run-of-the-mill, and crassly manipulative.
Alternately crass and treacly, overbearing and under-finessed, the film, penned by headhunter-turned-screenwriter Bill Dubuque and directed by Mark Williams, is on life support from get-go.
A loathsome redemption tale that rings false on every front except when depicting capitalistic assholery (and sometimes fails to convince us even then), Williams' directing debut The Headhunter's Calling (from a script by former corporate headhunter Bill Dubuque) not only expects us to root for its unlovable protagonist, but expects us to do so when that man is played by Gerard Butler.
User Score
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Based on 9 User Ratings
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 User Ratings
5.6
22% Positive
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78% Mixed
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Production Company
Zero Gravity Management,
G-BASE
Release Date Jul 28, 2017
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline What are you working for?
Awards
PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
