| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 81 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Peter Askin. |
| Cast |
Alan Cumming, Anthony LaPaglia, Denis Leary, Douglas McGrath, John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver. |
| Summary |
Former Woody Allen collaborator Douglas McGrath co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this historical screwball comedy that offers up its own creative suggestion as to what might have spurned 1961's Bay of Pigs invasion. McGrath plays Allen Quimp, a nebbish schoolteacher who - in an attempt to appease his browbeating wife Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) - boasts that he leads a double life as a CIA operative. Daisy immediately sets to work writing a tell-all biography, and as his rumor spreads, Quimp bumbles his way into working at an actual CIA post in Cuba. There, he's confronted by a Cold War vigilante (John Turturro) who enlists his help in taking down the country's communist strongman, Fidel Castro (Anthony LaPaglia). Company Man was co-written and co-directed by New York stage director Peter Askin; both Askin and McGrath sued the film's production company in 1999 when, they claimed, the privilege of editing the final cut was denied to them. |
| Audience |
Rated PG-13. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Drama.
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Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016 -- Assassination attempts -- Drama.
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Espionage -- Cuba -- Drama.
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Cuba -- History -- Invasion, 1961 -- Drama.
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| Genre |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Penotti, John.
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Leed, Rick.
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Skotchdopole, James W.
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Askin, Peter, 1940-
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McGrath, Douglas.
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Cumming, Alan, 1965-
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LaPaglia, Anthony.
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Leary, Denis.
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Turturro, John, 1957-
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Weaver, Sigourney, 1949-
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Boyd, Russell, 1944-
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Toniolo, Camilla.
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Lawrence, David Nessim.
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Myers, Ruth.
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Musky, Jane.
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hoopla digital.
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| Music No. |
MWT10958248 |
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