In Good Company (2004)

Average rating

(60%)

Starring:	Dennis Quaid \| Scarlett Johansson \| Topher Grace
Director:	Paul Weitz
Studio:	ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time:	106 mins
Collections:	100 Rom-Coms
Genres:	Comedy \| Drama
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Released:	June 06, 2005
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Dennis Quaid plays a middle-aged ad exec faced with a new boss who's nearly half his age, and who also happens to be sleeping with his daughter.

Rating of 3 stars out of 5

This glossy comedy drama from writer/director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) is an entertaining foray into the world of male relationships. In the aftermath of a company takeover, young hotshot Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) takes the job and the office of likeable, seasoned boss Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid). As the displaced executive, Quaid manages to look both tough and tender — he's equally concerned for the future of his daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson) as he is for his fellow workers. These professional and personal lives collide when Carter and Alex begin seeing each other, threatening to destroy the men's already unsteady alliance. Weitz's tale could have been a cold, cutting display of the value of youth over experience, but he plays it warm and cuddly instead. Although that means there's a whiff of inevitability about it all, the fine cast still offer up plenty of surprises.

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Family Entertainment

nitaray from Surrey, 7th October, 2005

Pleasant family entertainment: no foul language, no expliciit sex, no blood...whatever is the world coming to? Dennis Quaid plays a happily married man, jolted out of his contented lifestyle by an unexpected demotion at work. Topher Grace is the young man who pinches his job. He reminded me of a young Jimmy Stewart with a nice line in gentle comedy. Scarlett Johanssen is the epitome of youthful charm combined with budding maturity. You wouldn't go out in the rain to see this film, but there are worse ways to spend a quiet evening at home.

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