men at work; In Good Company finds Dennis Quaid with a boss half his age who's dating his daughter.(Movie Review)

These days, our multiplex screens are crawling with men who've never grown up, from the lovelorn Spider-Man and overgrown adolescents in Sideways to Finding Neverland's J. M. Barrie, himself the prototype of Peter Pan. Now comes In Good Company, whose young hero, Carter Duryea (played by That '70s Show's Topher Grace), is a shallow corporate go-getter. When his conglomerate takes over a sports magazine, Carter finds himself in charge of ad sales, becoming boss of former head Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid). A salesman of the old school, Dan is humiliated to be working for a "kid" half his age, especially one who has internalized all those New Economy mantras about success and synergy. Yet even as Dan licks the wounds to his masculine pride-he can't afford to lose his job-Carter is busy salting them. He gets involved with Dan's daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson), an NYU student who brings out a decency in Carter that he didn't know he possessed.

In Good Company was written and directed by Paul Weitz, who (along with brother Chris) last made About a Boy, another film about a male narcissist who belatedly ...