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movie review - In Good Company

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

This is a movie about a senior executive who winds up, through some kind of corporate restructuring, with a boss from a very different corporate culture who's in his late twenties. The younger man then starts dating the daughter of the main character.

This is two movies in one. First, there's an accurate accounting of what the corporate world has gotten like recently, with nonsensical (and destructive) shenanigans intended to "extract value", and others designed to create bizarre alliances so that no one can tell what they're supposed to be doing or who their customer even is. Then there's a clumsy second story about the young couple and the awkward nature of the younger man being the older one's boss. Which frankly I suspect they thought was going to be the driver for this thing. But with two charming male leads that seem unable to maintain any sense of rivalry or conflict, it fails to take off.

Not recommended.