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Grocery-store Politics Create a Successful Satire in 'The Promotion'new
The Promotion not only satirizes the American dream's moral price tag, it suggests that grocery stores, as possible places of employment, offer the worst of both worlds.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-11-2008 |
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Steve Conrad on Detailing Comedy in 'The Promotion'new
It's a gratifying surprise to find that Chicago-based screenwriter Steve Conrad's auspicious directorial debut, capturing the rivalry between two men, mild-mannered, levelheaded Doug (Sean William Scott) and eccentric Québécois transplant Richard (John C. Reilly), for a manager's job at a supermarket, is a likeable, often-tender, lovingly paced comedy of no small charm, a small miracle in an age of accelerated pacing and masticated punch lines.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
06-04-2008 |
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