Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 81 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Former
Woody Allen collaborator
Douglas McGrath co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this historical screwball comedy that offers up its own creative suggestion as to what might have spurned 1961's Bay of Pigs invasion.
McGrath plays Allen Quimp, a nebbish schoolteacher who -- in an attempt to appease his browbeating wife Daisy (
Sigourney Weaver) -- boasts that he leads a double life as a CIA operative. Daisy immediately sets to work writing a tell-all biography, and as his rumor spreads, Quimp bumbles his way into working at an actual CIA post in Cuba. There, he's confronted by a Cold War vigilante (
John Turturro) who enlists his help in taking down the country's communist strongman, Fidel Castro (
Anthony LaPaglia).
Company Man was co-written and co-directed by New York stage director
Peter Askin; both
Askin and
McGrath sued the film's production company in 1999 when, they claimed, the privilege of editing the final cut was denied to them.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
