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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Humor, Drug Content Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 08/28/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 21 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy, Political Satire

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

Douglas McGrath - Allen Quimp
Sigourney Weaver - Daisy Quimp
John Turturro - Crocker Johnson
Anthony LaPaglia - Fidel Castro
Ryan Phillippe - Rudolph Petrov

The wacky spy comedy Company Man comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials are limited to a theatrical trailer. This is a slight, but agreeable disc that matches up with the slight, but agreeable film contained on it. Anyone looking for something outside the Hollywood mainstream should enjoy this disc. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide