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Company Man is a 2000 comedy film written and directed by Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath. The film stars McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Ryan Phillippe, Alan Cumming, Anthony LaPaglia, Woody Allen, and Denis Leary as "Officer Fry". Bill Murray had a cameo appearance in the film that was cut before the film's release.
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When film becomes obscure despite notable names behind and in front of cameras, that, more often than not, happens for a good reason. This is what happened with *Company Man*, 2000 period comedy written and directed by Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath. The plot begins in 1959. McGrath plays the protagonist, English prep school teacher Alan Quimp, man who fantasises about changing his uneventful life for a career of C…More
Company Man is a highly underrated Woody Allen historical comedy. Jeffrey Jones plays the straight shooting, no nonsense Senator who served in WW2. He wants answers from the head of the CIA about the "Bay of Pigs" incident and is angry about a heavily redacted document that only mentions "Officer Quimp". Jeffrey Jones and Paul Guilfoyle [CIA agent] do a great back and forth that is full of tension and intrigue. The…More
