Another movie that's over a year old that I finally got to on my netflix list!  I actually cleared a lot of stuff off of my cue this week.  Zack's grades took a tumble so he won't be watching anything for a while.  There were a lot of horror films I have no interest in.  All gone.  The cue went from 47 titles to 29.  Now maybe I'll finally get to see season 2 of NipTuck.  Or UrpYuck, as I like to call it.

Could Dennis Quaid get any cuter?  He is actually getting better by the year, much like Sean Connery managed to do until he turned, oh about 90.  I loved In Good Company!  Here's what I'd heard about it; Dennis Quaid gets demoted and his new boss is Topher Grace, who's young enough to be his son.  To complicate matters further, Topher falls in love with Dennis's daughter, Scarlett Johannsen.

All those things do happen in the movie, but that's not what the movie is about.  It's actually about a man who's personal life is booming even as his job is being eaten alive by Corporate Culture, who becomes the involuntary mentor of the young turk who's career is skyrocketing while his personal life is torpedoed, and who also happens to be the new boss.

I thougth Dennis was perfect in his portrayal of a guy, no a MAN, a man's man, who refuses to sit by helplessly while stupid nonsense forces itself upon his career.  I loved the fact that he kept his integrity while also swallowing as much as he could, because he never loses sight of what's really important to him; his family.

Topher Grace was also wonderful.  I liked him on That 70s Show, so I knew he was funny, but he was really great in this!  It was really fun watching his character slowly shrug off the successful facade and turn into the young man who needs a role model.  He didn't know he needed one, he even thought he had one.  As the story progresses, you see him realize that the guy he thought he wanted to be was an unhappy jackass and that all he really wanted, Dennis Quaid already had.  

There is a love story between Topher and Scarlett, who plays Dennis's daughter, but she's way too young for him and she knows that he's an emotional mess and she's not going to have a relationship that brings her Dad pain, so she dumps him.   What I loved about it is that for both of them, breaking up with each other was preferable to loosing Dennis. 

So I guess what I thought In Good Company was really about was the love story between the Old Man and the Young Man.   Brokeback Mountain didn't sell  the love nearly as well. 

 

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