In 1960s suburbia Allen Quimp (Paul Guilfoyle) makes up a little white lie and tells his wife (Sigourney Weaver) that he is a spy The CIA soon become interested in him and send him and his wife to Cuba to overthrow Castro!
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It's 1958 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Allen Quimp is an English teacher who has become so exasperated by his wife's constant tantrums that he allows himself a little break, and tells his wife that his real job is spying. However, the real CIA becomes very interested in this 'agent' that they don't know about.
COMPANY MAN cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his gift to society Quimp's grasping wife Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) however has higher aspirations for him In classic THE MAN IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT mode Daisy desires a highly paid husband who can provide a better lifestyle Desperate to impress her Quimp pretends to have a secret life as a CIA agent When Quimp accidentally helps a visiting Russian dancer Petrov (Ryan Phillipe) defect the CIA actually does hire him so they can claim credit The Company ships Quimp off to Havana Cuba where Agent Fry (Denis Leary) and Chief Lowther (Woody Allen)--who has some of the film's funniest lines--studiously ignore the impending revolution However when Fidel Castro (Anthony LaPaglia) overthrows General Batista (Alan Cumming) the fanatical chest-bumping Agent Johnson (John Turturro) convinces Quimp to help him assassinate the Cuban dictator With hilarious performances from Allen and Turturro COMPANY MAN puts a slapstick revisionist spin on Castro's rise to power
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