Scratching and Clawing Their Way to the Middle
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
“The Promotion” tells you everything you might want to know but were too uninterested to ask about working as an assistant manager in a supermarket. As this sweet, ineffectual comedy follows two sad sacks competing for the job of manager at a new branch of a Chicago grocery chain, it pointedly avoids the raucous bad-boy clowning of the typical Everyguy farce. Think of it as a polite, tightly muzzled “Clerks.”
The feature directorial debut of Steven Conrad, who wrote the screenplay for “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “The Promotion” also emulates the television comedy “The Office” by showing that even the dreariest workplace is a quirky little universe unto itself. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (2526 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 Giugno 2008
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