jiloawybon Higher if you like comedy loosely based on fact. If you don't like this type movie don't bother.(Rating 8)See good actors acting outside their expected roles (e.g., Sigourney Weaver and Denis Leary.) (Rating 10)See Woody Allen play Woody Allen at his uncredited best.Re: Woody Allen ... He probably requested that he be left out of credits as viewers would expect better of him and the movie.(Rating 2)Re: Trivia...Sorry they left Bill Murray on the cutting room floor.(ad 1 to overall rating)Sorry they didn't spice it up with another "matronly housekeeper" scene.(Rating 1)And, of course, the video clips in the credits leave no doubt as to the political persuasion of the writers/directors.

thewayofthesloth I have to say that i watch a lot of odd comedies, but this one is the best. Everyone was so well casted and their parts so well scripted. They took a real event and turned it into the best comedy with great actors willing to play the roles.The naive innocence of school-teacher Quimp and how most things work out his way, accidentally... Except for the mongoose in his shorts! Either way this movie is classic humor (right up there with the Three Amigos in my book) and i will borrow it to others with the conviction that they should love it too. If you know even a little about history, it's hilarious.

Lee Eisenberg I had never heard of "Company Man" when I started watching it, but I nearly laughed myself to death. This story of a CIA agent involved in several botched plots to assassinate Fidel Castro hits all the right nerves.It starts with a committee interviewing agent Alan Quimp (Douglas McGrath) about why the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. Quimp then goes into the story. In the late '50s, his wife Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) wanted him to get a better job, so he pretended to be a CIA agent. The real CIA is about to come after him for doing this, but then he helps a Soviet dancer (Ryan Philippe) defecate - I mean defect! - to the US. So, the CIA sends Quimp to Cuba to find Agent X. During Quimp's stay in Cuba, the revolution triumphs. So, the US government sets about trying to get rid of Castro however possible. Sure enough, every scheme invariably goes belly up, and flamboyant ex-dictator Fulgencio Batista (Alan Cumming) isn't much help.Like many movies, this one shows that comedy is the best way to show politics.* The main humor springs from the bungling of every plot to eliminate Castro - and subsequent embarrassment to the people trying to get rid of him - but there's also Quimp's obsession with perfect grammar, plus many of the lines coming from Woody Allen and Denis Leary...plus a little thing about John Kennedy. They must have had fun filming this movie! Of course, the main thing that one might derive from this is that it's the ultimate embarrassment for the US government to maintain this hostile policy towards Cuba (from what I've read, it sounds as though the Bush administration considers it more important to overthrow Castro than to find Osama bin Laden). It was one thing to have this policy during the Cold War, but today? I mean really.All in all, a really funny one. Also starring Jeffrey Jones, John Turturro and Heather Matarazzo.*Other such movies include "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "Dr. Strangelove", "Wag the Dog", "Bulworth" and "Fun with Dick and Jane".

George Parker "Company Man" conjures up a silly history lesson as it weaves a comedic story of the Castro Cuban coup vis-a-vis its central character (McGrath); an English teach turned CIA operative. A funny, surprisingly star-studded, and cleverly crafted little comedy romp with rampant nonsense, "CM" answers many questions such as where that thing on Gorbachev's head came from and why the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. Fun stuff for those into clever nonsense.