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Company Man review
February 24, 2010 | |
There may be experiences in life more painful than sitting through
Company Man,
but for now ignorance is bliss. Apparently cut by 15 minutes from its original screening in France (which should tell you something right there), the film is still too long by about, oh, 81 minutes or so. Set before and during the Bay of Pigs invasion — already, the potential for comedy is endless — Company Man stars co-screenwriter and co-director Douglas McGrath (who also adapted and directed the far-more-finely-tuned adaptation of
Emma
several years back) as a private school grammar teacher whose attempts to impress his harridan wife (Sigourney Weaver) lead (though a chain of misadventures, natch) to his ending up as a CIA special operative in Cuba. From there, the chain of misused actors and grating performances — Woody Allen, John Turturro, Alan Cumming (Batista), Anthony LaPaglia (Castro), Denis Leary and a particularly awful Ryan Phillippe — lengthens and twists around your neck until your eyes bulge. Very, very, very not good
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