Company Man

Company Man (2000)

Genres - Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Political Satire  |   Release Date - Mar 9, 2000 (USA), Mar 9, 2001 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 86 min.  |   Countries - France, United Kingdom, United States  |   MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Michael Hastings

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.

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CIA (Central-Intelligence-Agency), Cuba, husband-and-wife, lies, schoolteacher