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...Carter Duryea (Topher??Grace) is a corporate comer. At 26, he has just had a major success marketing dinosaur-shaped cell phones to children. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a stayer. At 51, he's the nice guy who successfully runs ad sales for a sports magazine. There's no good reason--other than heedless youth worship--for the clueless Carter to replace steady Dan when the soulless multinational Globecom buys his publication and demotes him to playing "wingman" to Carter...
...fact, In Good Company places a steady strain on our credulity. Why, for example, is Ann (Marg Helgenberger), Dan's wife and the mother of two teenage daughters, suddenly and belatedly pregnant--except as a device to put more pressure on Dan? Why do Carter and one of those daughters, Alex (Scarlett Johansson), fall for each other--except as a way of ratcheting up the tension between Dan and his young boss? For that matter, why is Globecom firing ad salesmen at the very moment it is demanding a 20% rise in ad revenue...
...BILL CARTER, FBI spokesman, addressing concerns that a spate of laser lights trained on pilots while they were landing could be the work of terrorists. An investigation is under way, though some officials suggested the incidents might be nothing more than people playing with new Christmas toys...
...JIMMY CARTER With his Revolutionary War book, The Hornet's Nest, Carter became the only President so far to try fiction--and admit it openly...
Ostensibly, In Good Company is the story of what happens when a 26-year old corporate schmuck with no experience named Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) is installed as the boss of the newly demoted 52-year old ad sales veteran Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid). The magazine for which Forman used to run ad sales is the latest acquisition by a Newscorp-esque multi-media conglomerate. Coincidentally (and we all know big-budget feel-good flicks don’t have any real coincidences), Foreman has a very attractive 19-year old daughter, Alex (Scarlett Johansson), and a well-put together...