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Company Man

2001, Movie, PG-13, 81 mins

Company Man: Review

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You can't help but think this movie started with a conversation about the CIA that began, "What kind of morons tried to discredit Castro by making his beard fall out?" The movie's whimsical conceit is that the moron behind this and a number of other bone-headed schemes was one Allen Quimp (Douglas McGrath), a dithering high-school grammar teacher with a materialistic wife named Daisy (Sigourney Weaver). Quimp is the wimpy underachiever in a family of Nobel Prize winners and astronauts; in order to impress his father-in-law, he claims to be a CIA agent. After accidentally helping world-famous Russian ballet star Rudolf Petrov (Ryan Phillippe) defect, Quimp actually is taken into the "Company" — much to his wife's delight. Not only is being married to a spook more impressive than being married to a schoolteacher, but she has plans to write a sensational book about her adventures with her super-spy spouse. That is, as soon as he starts having some. The CIA, of course, only hired Quimp so they could take credit for Petrov's high-profile defection. So they post Quimp to Cuba, which they persist in believing is a quiet little tropical backwater, mostly because station chief Lowther (Woody Allen) wouldn't know a revolution if it were taking place under his silly beret. Next thing you know, dictator General Battista (Alan Cumming, who badly needs to take a role that doesn't require mincing) has been overthrown and Quimp is in reluctant cahoots with a rabid anti-communist named Johnson (John Turturro; whose forte is not comedy) who's going to kill Castro (Anthony LaPaglia) or die trying. The script, by co-writers and -directors Douglas McGrath and Peter Askin, is intermittently clever, but their direction is leaden and assassinates every gag with a lethal accuracy the CIA could only hope to achieve. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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