Management

2009 "Some moments just feel right."
5.8| 1h34m| R| en| More Info
Released: 15 May 2009 Released
Producted By: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.managementfilm.com/
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A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Romance

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Director

Stephen Belber

Production Companies

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

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Management Audience Reviews

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!
BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
HelenMary This is the sort of film you aren't surprised if it goes straight to DVD or is made for TV, it's a slow starter, low budget style and rather basic. The premise doesn't really make any sense, at the start, in the real world, and if it was anyone other than Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn in the main roles I don't think it would have been at all believable. I got the impression from this that Aniston was just collecting her pay cheque and as another reviewer stated it really is Zahn's film - with honourable mention to the wonderful Fred Ward and Woody Harrelson. Again, if the simple naïve acting was done by anyone other than Zahn, I think viewers would consider it to be empty but he brings a gravitas to it as he is known for being such a talent.The film is predictable to a certain extent, but does play out with a degree of satisfaction. The film certainly improves half way through, up until that point I didn't really see much positive as it was too slow and silly. As the characters mature, especially Zahn, and Harrelson makes an appearance to add some conflict, the story picks up pace and I found myself sitting up a bit and paying more attention. The film unravels into a quite sweet philosophical and convincing romcom. A few laugh out loud moments but the film is more amusing than comical, and evolves into quite a touching story. Not one I'd see again, perhaps, but one I don't regret seeing.
cnt0030 People are just not giving this movie credit where credit is due! Anniston helped produce this movie. Im a guy and I have to say this is a top 3 romantic movie of all time. Watch the whole movie from beginning to end. Excellent and creative way how true love works. He seems stalkerish and creepy at first but his intentions were innocent. It had a "Gilbert Grape" type of feel to the movie. I would say that if Mike (main character) didn't have his un orthodox view of life then anyone else in his position would of given up on chasing after the love of their dreams. Give this movie a chance. The movie definitely takes its time to progress but thats how they keep you intrigued. I would def recommend this to anyone who believes love is not out there, or to those that feverishly ignore the hints of love hitting you in the face!
Miss Naughtia I would not categorize this movie as a comedy, it is more like a drama than anything else.Jennifer Aniston plays the part of an art saleswoman who travels to a small town to sell art to an office. She checks in to a local motel and meets an employee of the motel. This employee is the son of the motel-owner and he immediately falls in love with this attractive lady. He follows her around and won't leave her alone.This movie was easy to watch and I'm sorry to say that I found it a bit boring. It never had any wow-moments and I didn't even know when the climax of the movie was. The best thing about this movie was the beautiful Miss Jennifer Aniston.
MBunge Management is a quirky little wish fulfillment fantasy for lonely nice guys that comes completely undone when it brings too many contrived and conventional romantic comedy clichés into the mix. It trades subtlety and dysfunctional realism for overly broad comedy and reaches for meaning that it never really earns.Mike (Steve Zahn) is the night manager at his parents motel. He's the classic 30something guy who still lives like he's in his teens, with no ambition to ever be more than that. Then he falls in love with a woman who checks into the motel one night. Well, Mike actually falls in love with her butt, since he only sees her from behind at first. Sue (Jennifer Aniston) is a traveling saleswoman who doesn't quite know what to make of Mike and his pathetically inept attempts at romance, but she responds to his neediness enough to throw him a roll in the hay before she has to check out. Mike then spends every last dime he has to fly across the country and visit Sue. She's a little taken aback but can't resist his harmless sincerity and indulges his romantic fantasies for a while before sending Mike back to his mom and dad.A tortured long-distance relationship continues for a while but when Mike gets another chance to visit Sue, he learns she's moved all the way across the country to get back together with an old boyfriend. Mike decides to follow her and that's where the story falls down and dies. What had been sweet and original becomes fake and predictable, with Mike even picking up a wacky best friend and indulging in an opaque journey of self-discovery. The movie even ends in a way that makes you wonder if writer/director Stephen Belber forgot what the original point of his story was.The best thing about Management is the acting of Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston. Zahn is given a character who behaves like a deranged stalker for most of the film. The script could have made Mike into a serial killer and it wouldn't have been that surprising, but Zahn is able to drain away all of Mike's potentially unsettling creepiness and make him likably pitiful. Aniston gives probably her most nuanced and affecting performance since The Good Girl, playing an unhappy adult who finds some solace with Mike's immature devotion but can't ignore how emotionally stunted he is. You can never forget how unbelievable it is that a well-intentioned but hapless loser like Mike could ever wind up with a successful beauty like Sue, but Zahn and Aniston interact so well that you won't care.Unfortunately, that relationship is largely abandoned for the second half of the movie and it runs through fairly typical rom-com paces. Mike spends far more time with the new wacky best friend the film gives him than he does with Sue, and when the movie does bring Mike and Sue back together it's with a maudlin tone that is out of step with either the sweet, quirky beginning or the broad, almost slapstickish comedy of the middle.Writer/director Belber came up with two great characters and cast two wonderful actors to play them, but then he didn't let their story unfold organically. Instead of letting Mike and Sue experience the limitations of their unequal relationship, Belber wields The Almighty Plot Hammer to keep them apart. So instead of feeling the real pain Mike and Sue would inflict on each other as their romantic dreams collided with reality, there's a bunch of manufactured angst that covers up how unhealthy Mike and Sue's relationship actually is.I mean, a guy knows a woman for 48 hours and decides to fly across the country to see her? She sees him show up at her office and doesn't immediately tell him to get lost? Then after stringing him along, she gets back with an old boyfriend and moves without telling him…and he follows her to her new home on the other side of the country? These are desperate and mean actions, yet Mike and Sue never have to accept or deal with that because the story never allows them too.Zahn and Aniston are great. Management is not.