The Promotion Page #2

Synopsis: At 33, Doug Stauber is ready for a promotion. He's married, wants to buy a house, and is assistant manager at a Chicago supermarket that's building a new store in his neighborhood. His boss tells him he's a shoo-in to manage the new store, then, a rival appears - Richard Wehlner, transferred from Canada. Richard has a deeper resume than Doug, is really nice, has a wife and daughter, and wants the promotion to manager too. How should Doug behave toward Richard - as a friend, a colleague, a competitor, or an enemy? Richard, it seems, has demons and a past, but with the help of motivational tapes, he's resolved to succeed. Corporate and personal tests await the two men.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Steve Conrad
Production: Weinstein Company
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2008
86 min
$362,531
316 Views


- Well, who's on lot?

- Richard.

- Ask Richard.

- Yeah, h-he's with Kev from Pepsi.

They're putting a new product up.

He asked for Richard.

- He asked for him?

- Yeah.

Been working together last couple of weeks.

They got friendly, so-

Can you get out there? Just, uh-

Listen, I have bad cards stacking up

from the lot. The board's here.

I'll get you inside tomorrow.

...from Donaldson's, the

champion of excellence.

Donaldson's is committed to

offering the widest selection-

- You can pretty much do what you want.

- Anything?

Yeah, man.

That wasn't what I meant. Come on.

No, seriously.

If you want this whole section...

it's Pepsi's world, right?

Um, no, we got a lot of room. I mean,

if you need to expand a little bit...

if you need more, I can-

She got a fat p*ssy too. I'm talkin'

about a f***in' milk truck p*ssy, nigga.

- Hey, guys. - Yo, and a big-ass house

made from a chub p*ssy and her ass?

- It's, like, damn!

- Come on, guys.

You gotta walk around.

Uh, no cut-throughs.

Whatever the f***.

- Hey, you can't cut through, dawg.

- Ah, f*** you, whopper.

- What the f*** you callin' me "whopper. "

- Whoa! Cool down.

I bought a Charleston Chew.

Man, f*** you. Ask him.

- Well, where is it?

- I ate it. Ain't I buy a Charleston Chew, a**hole?

Your name's Stauber, right? Doug?

Yep.

- Did he buy a Charleston Chew?

- Like, at 2:
00.

Did he buy a Charleston Chew this afternoon?

Come on, Stauber.

- Yeah.

- All right.

- Then he's a customer, Stauber.

- I'm a customer every day buyin' Chews.

Welcome, all you guys.

You played this the wrong way, Stauber.

What the frig are you doing?

Here's how we're gonna fix this.

Come on.

Go.

Excuse me, young sir?

I want to offer you-

I'd like to offer you a complimentary

strawberry Charleston Chew.

I indicated the flavor:: Strawberry.

Thanks, strawberry f*ggot.

I'm little Mr. Strawberries.

And I was supposed to be inside that day,

not comping the Chews.

Kev, I think you're all set. I'm gonna give you the end cap, and

- It was good to see you.

- It's great to see you. I'm proud of you.

- You too, man.

Um, like I said, if you need

more space on the shelves...

I can always squeeze

Green River a little bit.

Hey, uh, were you a male gymnastics?

Was I a male gymnastics?

Were you a male gymnastics

in theJunior Olympics? Ruiz Googled you.

He says you were a male gymnastic

in Junior Olympics.

No. I wasn't... male gymnastics

in Junior Olympics.

Octavio- Come on, man.

It's a joke, for morale purposes.

Wehlner didn't say

nothing. He's inside today.

- You're lot.

- I'm just gonna take it down.

We should eat.

You guys want something from the rotisserie?

Let's snag somethin' from Deli.

You're gonna love this deli.

Their selection is out of this world.

We're gonna place four lunch orders.

He stole my Pepsi rep detail.

No matter how you slice it,

that's a dick move.

You deal with the poster.

Dick move, man. Deal.

Rotating convention,

full benefits...

That's great.

- It is.

- Hey, Doug. Doug Stauber!

- Hey.

- It's my wife, Lori.

I was just tellin' her

about this new place.

Hey, come on over and meet Christine Wehlner.

- Hey.

- Hi, I'm Jen.

Lori. Pleased to meet you.

- Hi. Doug.

- What kind of accent is that? It's really pretty.

Scotland.

We met on a mission to Scotland.

- On an army mission?

- Christian, man. Christian mission.

Oh. Okay.

Man, when I cheese postered him,

I didn't know he was a family man.

Also, he's Canadian. They're not

the same as Americans. They're nicer.

- Oh. Hey, Paul.

- Hi. How are you? Nice to see you.

- Good to see you too. It's been a while.

- You're lookin' great.

- Thank you very much.

- Hot enough for ya?

I like it like this. Opens up the pores,

makes me feel really good.

- Listen, I gotta run, but you're lookin' great.

- Okay. Thanks.

- See you later.

- You too. Say hello to the wife.

He was nice. And he actually had

a pretty good little explanation...

for stealing my Pepsi rep, Kevin.

So, yeah, I'm glad I saw ya...

'cause I w-wanted to talk

to you off to the side about Kev.

- Pepsi rep Kev?

- Yeah, about that stuff. Yeah.

Uh, when we were

puttin' up theJazz?

I wanted to tell you-

you know, off to the side- um...

I'm a drug addict- recovering-

and an alcoholic.

And, uh, Kevin's my program sponsor.

Yeah, um, sponsor.

Yeah. So, Wednesday,

I was havin' a-

Well, I just really

needed to talk to him.

- So I'm sorry if- I didn't mean to-

- Don't worry about it.

- Come on.

- Okay. Thanks, Doug. That's awesome.

- Oh, hey.

- No, I got it.

- It's okay.

- I got it, Doug. Get outta here.

Get on outta here.

Who else is interviewing anyway?

It's really mine, as the shoo-in.

But, uh, I think they're going to sit down

with a couple of other guys as a formality.

They don't stand a chance really.

Not with you in this suit,

they don't.

- Is that guy still standing on his balcony staring at us?

- Yeah.

That's nice.

Hey, do you mind if I listen on my

headphones? 'Cause Canadian news is on at 1:30.

That's cool.

Chapter Four.

Chances are,

you live in a metro environment...

full of men trying their best

to get ahead.

Millions. So how do you separate yourself

from the guy next to you...

who may be younger

and also wants what you want?

Through the quality of your work,

by flying higher.

This chapter's entitled,

"Taking Off. "

Let's let this classic rock song

remind you what direction-

Richard Wehlner-

is headed:
Up.

Let's rock!

# Ticktock, tick, doo, doo, doo-doo #

#Ticktock, tick

Doo, doo, doo-doo #

#Time keeps on slippin'

slippin', slippin' #

# Into the future #

#Time keeps on slippin'

slippin', slippin' #

- #Into the future-#

- Richard Wehlner-

- # I wanna fly like an eagle-#

- Richard Wehlner-

#To the sea #

# Fly like an eagle

Let my spirit carry me #

# I want to fly like an eagle-#

- Richard Wehlner-

- #Till I'm free ##

Our grocery-

We have Martin's projects right there.

And we're trying to draw

from pretty high-end neighborhoods.

We get a lot of cut-throughs, but, uh, keeping

the lot safe is our number one obstacle.

And I don't shy away

from the lot. It's critical.

That's good. It's critical

at the Augusta Plus store too.

We have public housing right there.

Yeah, it's a balancing act. You need safety,

but you also need good community relations.

I'm glad you mentioned

community relations.

The housing- those are our neighbors,

our customers too.

It's important to get along.

Doug, what's this?

- I grabbed this on the 19th.

- That's out of line.

Yeah.

- When did you get that?

- June 19th, at your deli, on the refrigeration unit.

- I think this is B.S.

- It is B.S.

I was probably on lot that day.

I like it out there.

Who was inside?

Maybe... Richard?

- Richard Wehlner.

- Yeah. Mmm.

I think so. Yep.

You think he was on Deli,

or he was on Deli?

Was on Deli.

Send him in.

Doug, these aren't great.

Bear down. We'll get some fresh cards.

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