In Good Company [HD DVD] | ![In Good Company [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YUp%2BI2%2BEL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Paul Weitz
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 11426
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 61032900
UPC: 025193290021
EAN: 0025193290021
ASIN: B000QEIOTY
Theatrical Release Date: January 14, 2005
Release Date: July 24, 2007
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Nowadays it's rare to find a movie that pays attention to human weakness as well as strength, and that sees a whole person as having both. When a sports magazine gets bought by a media conglomerate, an ad sales executive named Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid, The Rookie) finds himself playing second-in-command to Carter Duryea, a hotshot barely half his age (Topher Grace, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!) whose marriage has just fallen apart. One evening Carter invites himself over to Dan's house to escape his loneliness, where he meets Dan's daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation). The two strike immediate sparks and when they run into each other later in the city, a relationship begins--which they discreetly keep from Dan. But the heart of the movie is not in its plot, but in the way that Dan responds to the news that his wife is pregnant, or how Carter tries to fortify his self-image with a new car. These aren't jokes; the actors inhabit these moments fully and turn them into psychological events. Quaid plays Dan as a simple man, but his straightforwardness feels genuine (rather than a failure of the writer's imagination). Grace and Johansson have terrific chemistry as lovers, but so do Grace and Quaid, both as rivals and as a substitute father and son. In Good Company isn't likely to win any awards, but it's honest and honorable; there's a core of truth to its characters and their problems aren't resolved too neatly. Sometimes, that's worth watching. --Bret Fetzer
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.System Requirements:running time: 111 Mins.Format: DVD HD Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025193290021 Manufacturer No: 61032900
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 Pointless May 30, 2009
Who4Fan (Roan Mountain, TN USA)
I hate to pan something that Dennis Quaid (one of my favorite actors) has done but I really have to. Oh, he was fine, as usual. All of the actors did a good job but the problem is that the movie has no point other than that sometimes bigger companies buy up smaller ones and then make poor business decisions. So, like, so what?
The movie was really about the effect it all had on Quaid and his daughter, which wound up being just about nothing. The new, young guy comes in, takes over Quaid's job, Quaid gets demoted, other people get fired, and the young guy starts having an affair with Quaid's daughter. Eventually though the young guy has to trust Quaid. They make a big business deal which turns the corner for the company. The young guy seems to actually be an OK kind of person but then the Big Company decides to sell off the smaller one. The young guy gets canned, Quaid gets promoted to his old job again, the daughter dumps the young guy, and the young guy winds up jogging on a beach in LA, looking for another job. The guys who got canned in the takeover get rehired and everything goes back to the way it was.
Quaid offers the young guy a job but he declines. The young guy meets the daughter in the elevator on the way out. They exchange uncomfortable greetings. She goes on her way. End of story.
You wind up feeling like, "why did I waste 2 hours on this thing?" It wasn't a Tragedy. It wasn't a Comedy. It wasn't uplifting. It didn't have any moral. It was like somebody needed to make a movie, any movie, so they hired Quaid, got a couple of writers, threw together a script over a weekend and away they went. I'm glad I only paid a couple of dollars for this movie.
Great movie January 13, 2009
Runner Girl (Washington, DC)
This is a great film. I added it to my collection because I feel it's entertaining enough to watch again and again.
 2.5 stars out of 4 December 22, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
In Good Company is a rather forgettable movie; it doesn't do itself any favors by eschewing the primary romantic plot halfway through in favor of male bonding between Topher Grace and an annoying Dennis Quaid.
 You will love this June 30, 2008
John D. Aldridge (Waimanalo, Hawaii)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, from start to finish. Perfect acting, direction, dialogue, shots, editing. The music was icing on the cake. In a way, it sort of reminded me of "The Graduate", back in the day, with Dustin Hoffman. Not in the story, but the feel, and lessons learned. Light hearted, but serious. A film an adult will appreciate. Highly recommended.
Morality lessons in a feel good movie June 22, 2008
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
Today's Hollywood produces movie after movie about humanity's negativity and our inevitable dystopian future. If not that, then the movie is an obvious homage to something so outlandish that it's not to be taken realistically. In Good Company, however, takes the opposite approach, showing genuine familial, work, and romantic relationships. With nearly no twists or surprises, almost no exaggeration whatsoever, this movie delivers as intended.
Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is the director of marketing for a company being purchased by a multination conglomerate. Corporate restructuring brings about the obvious changes. As a result, most of Dan's team is fired, and his position is usurped by Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) - as the young, brash, conceited yet overmatched, buzz-word spouting whiz-kid - making Dan the second fiddle. Just like a formulaic black-white movie, where the white character inevitably learns to dance from the black character, Carter soon learns from the wiser, experienced, and worldly sage of marketing. Just think of Dan as Miyagi and Carter as Daniel-San; it only takes one good butt-kicking, literally in this movie, to realize how incompetent and unprepared you are when faced with an experienced adversary.
When Carter meets Dan's georgous, college-bound daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson), sparks fly, adding yet another juxtaposed subplot amidst the struggles of life, love, and corporate advancement.
Overall it's a decent, albeit predictable, somewhat bland movie that if nothing more, provides a reason to ogle Johansson and see Quaid turn in a great performance.
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