Word: duryea
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...noir plots and attitude, but neither the actors to give the stories a fatalist heft nor the actresses beautiful and seductive enough to play a plausible femme fatale. In The Great Flamarion - a triangle drama in which a woman misuses the two men who desire her -Dan Duryea says of his wife, "Any guy who wouldn't fall for you is either a sucker or he's dead." Unfortunately, the wife is played by Mary Beth Hughes, who's pretty deficient in the allure category...
...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...
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...
...speech is an indictment of the meaninglessness of corporate-speak that freezes the Murdochian C.E.O. of his company, inciting the audience to cheer. But sometimes the astonishingly charismatic cast gels so well that the movie just coasts into fairy-tale territory. Particularly during the scenes of Alex and Duryea finding happiness with each other, in the words of another film’s tagline, “you will believe...
...Marty has a locked-room alibi - a pal had bolted the lush?s apartment door from the outside just before the murder was committed - and, as played by Duryea, is a sympathetic soul looking to redeem a promising life pissed away. He?s also falling in love with Catherine. So he joins forces with her as a pianist-singer duo at the nightclub of menacing Marko (Peter Lorre), who knew the dead woman. All this amateur sleuthing wins the initial contempt of detective Broderick Crawford, who snarls to Marty, ?You just gotta play detective. Do I go around playin? piano...