Company Man is a 2000 Anglo-American comedy film

Comedy film

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 directed by and written by Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath

Douglas McGrath

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. Film stars Douglas McGrath

Douglas McGrath

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, Sigourney Weaver

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, John Turturro

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, Ryan Phillippe

Ryan Phillippe

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, Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming

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, Anthony LaPaglia

Anthony LaPaglia

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 with Woody Allen

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 and Denis Leary

Denis Leary

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 as "Officer Fry". Bill Murray

Bill Murray

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 had a cameo appearance

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in the film, but his appearance was cut.

Plot

In the 1960s, Alan Quimp is a school teacher of English grammar and married with the very demanding woman Daisy Quimp. In order to avoid the constant mockery in Daisy's family, Alan says that he is a secret CIA agent. Daisy tells everybody, the CIA acknowledges the lie, but due to a coincidence, Alan has just helped and hidden the professional Russian dancer Petrov who wanted to leave Russia. The CIA decides to hire Alan as an agent, to get the credits of bringing Petrov to USA, and immediately decides to send him to a very calm place, Cuba.

Box office

According to IMDb, film's budget was $16,000,000 (estimated). Film grossed only $146,028 in USA.