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Plot:
Doug and Richard, two assistant managers at a Chicago supermarket chain, battle for the same management position at a new store. Though the two seem to have nothing in common, their battle of wits an...( read more 
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MCT:October 31, 2008NOT INTERESTED
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MCT:December 2, 2008John C. Reilly has two tricks up his sleeve: he plays either a socially awkward and overgrown baby or a sadist. So his role in The Promotion, in theory, was a good idea - a socially awkward recovering addict out to get his competition (Seann William Scott, who has progressed from Steve Stiffler to Still Stiffler over the last decade...) for the job of manager at their grocery store's newest location. Reilly, however, gets stuck between his two stong suits, and plays them both ambivalently, with no help from a flat performance by Stiffler. While I wasn't expecting anything brilliant out of this one, short of the sparse few laughs along the way, somehow this was still quite disappointing. Slice of life, maybe, but it didn't ring true enough.
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MCT:November 18, 2008I liked this original movie about two very sweet guys, each with their own life-set of problems and both up for the same promotion as a manager in a new supermarket. This pulled at my ehart strings as well as made me laugh out loud several times. Moves along a little too slowly perhaps, but over-all a nice little film and great performances by (a favorite of mine) John C. Riley and Seann William Scott.
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MCT:November 13, 2008
2 guys compete for the same job of running a new grocery store. Wildly uneven in tone: is it subtle satire or wacky workplace farce? Seann William Scott and John C. Reilly show restraint like never before and the laid back attitude works against this material which should have been more zany. There is a work retreat sequence in the middle of the movie that is just wonderful, otherwise the movie is sort of a puzzling bore.
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MCT:November 9, 2008
Two guys "fighting" over a promotion: the DVD cover says "two guys - one job - no rules". Not entirely correct. And much of our society could benefit from reading the books Seann W Scott reads toward the end. Some real stuff here; and since it's real, there's some funny stuff as well. Comfortably entertaining movie.
