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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson & Topher Grace | |
Performer: | David Paymer, Philip Baker Hall, Marg Helgenberger, Clark Gregg, Selma Blair, Frankie Faison, Ty Burrell, Kevin Chapman, Amy Aquino, Zena Grey, Enrique Castillo & John Cho | |
Directed by | Paul Weitz | |
Edited by | Myron Kerstein | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Weitz | |
Composition by | Stephen Trask | |
Produced by | Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz | |
Director of Photography: | Remi Adefarasin | |
Executive Production by | Rodney Liber & Andrew Miano |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Even better, Weitz asks tough questions without easy answers, pointing daggers at companies like the very one he's busy making motion pictures for.
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MovieFreak.com
[A] nimble, engagingly lightweight drama....It makes for an agreeable solo directing debut.
New York Times
[A] smart, charming film that moves confidently between comedy and drama...
Sight and Sound
An engaging diversion that lovingly, wisely plays with human foibles and uncomfortable truths.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 4/5 --
A warm and witty comedy brimming with sharp insights.
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BBC.com
[T]his workplace satire gets in some licks along the way. And it gives Dennis Quaid one of his best screen showcases.
USA Today
[A] bouncy, optimistic comedy....This winning comedy is about the contrast between the enduringly pleasing, quintessentially baby boomer masculinity of Dennis Quaid and the addictively delightful Gen-X charms of Topher Grace...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
In his previous effort, ABOUT A BOY, writer-director Paul Weitz managed to smoothly blend elements of dark comedy with heartwarming drama to deftly undercut both of the genre's undesirable excesses. IN GOOD COMPANY is Weitz's solo directorial debut sans his brother Chris, with whom he co-helmed the aforementioned BOY and the wildly successful AMERICAN PIE series. Here, he perfects his gift for the so-called "dramedy," softening the jagged, sometimes ugly edges of corporate satire with warmth and sentiment.
Dennis Quaid is perfectly cast as Dan Foreman, a slightly weary yet still dashing advertising boss and dedicated family man. He seems to have it all as a wholesome and admirable father, an existence which smacks of the archetypical mid-century sitcom dad that he so brilliantly portrayed as the secretly homosexual husband-father in Todd Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN. Enter Carter Duryea (THAT 70s SHOW's Topher Grace), a cocky young upstart hired to replace him. Before long, Dan is forced to be deferential to his new baby-faced boss, not only in the office but also at his own dinner table when Dan begins dating his lovely daughter Alex (Scarlett Johanssen). This old-fashioned, slightly soap-operatic twist is the perfect catalyst for the integration of humanity into an environment (and cinematic genre) that is so often devoid of it, and the film simultaneously lightens in spirit and deepens in emotion as a slow-yet-sure, father-and-son bond develops between the former adversaries.
Dennis Quaid is perfectly cast as Dan Foreman, a slightly weary yet still dashing advertising boss and dedicated family man. He seems to have it all as a wholesome and admirable father, an existence which smacks of the archetypical mid-century sitcom dad that he so brilliantly portrayed as the secretly homosexual husband-father in Todd Haynes' FAR FROM HEAVEN. Enter Carter Duryea (THAT 70s SHOW's Topher Grace), a cocky young upstart hired to replace him. Before long, Dan is forced to be deferential to his new baby-faced boss, not only in the office but also at his own dinner table when Dan begins dating his lovely daughter Alex (Scarlett Johanssen). This old-fashioned, slightly soap-operatic twist is the perfect catalyst for the integration of humanity into an environment (and cinematic genre) that is so often devoid of it, and the film simultaneously lightens in spirit and deepens in emotion as a slow-yet-sure, father-and-son bond develops between the former adversaries.
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