The Promotion Page #7

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
319 Views


#Rings just once #

#Late at night #

#Like a bird #

#Don't be scared #

#Don't believe

you're all alone #

# Wake #

# Wake up, Paul #

# Whisper clouds #

#Rolling by #

#And the seeds ##

Is there anything you'd like to add?

Just that I'd give

the new store my all.

I think you would.

Good. So if there's nothing else...

send in jack apples.

Let's get applejacker's

interview over with.

That cheese cracker.

Good luck.

Because you're gonna need it.

Before I get Richard,

I just-

We have this bag boy

- Hardy. I wanted to tell you that, when you thought...

that Richard Wehlner

was talking trash talk, as you said...

Richard was just letting me know there are

parts of Hardy's life that made him sad.

- That's all.

- Which parts?

Um, the parts where Hardy

can't stop masturbating his penis.

So he has a powdered right hand

for a deterrent.

Wouldn't powder make

the experience better?

Uh, probably, but-

This is a specific powder

with sandpaper-like qualities, I think.

All I'm saying is that-

Richard is a good guy.

He's not out ofline

or inappropriate.

I wanted you to know.

He's a real good grocer.

So if there was

no inappropriate talk...

I guess that leaves you guys

on equal footing.

Yeah. I guess.

Tell Richard we'll be with him

in five minutes.

Are you all done?

They said wait around.

- For what?

- They didn't say.

They just said wait around.

I'm f***ed.

Hey. Richard.

Doug.

We're all just out here

tryin' to get some food.

Sometimes we bump into each other.

Stay loose, Doug.

#Every day, I'm gonna

strut that stuff #

Hey. I've enjoyed our time together.

But now it's time

for you to get out there...

and just kick everyone's ass.

See you at the yacht club, my good friend-

Richard Wehln-

- Do one thing for me.

- Yeah, babe.

You fix that little ship...

and you keep it cool

and keep it clean, mister.

- Chrissie's sleepin'.

- Okay.

Don't get f'ing tangled.

Come on.

Tell me again why you're not at work.

I carved out some free time.

- On your first day?

- Yep.

You didn't start

your new job today, did you?

No.

You didn't actually get it yet,

did you?

No.

Doug, why did you tell me that?

I said I could go back to school.

I want to be the primary

breadwinner, Jen. Come on.

Female lions do the hunting.

I'm not a lion.

I'm a guy.

Get up there, son of a b.

- I was embarrassed.

- About what?

Our life.

- And George Washington Carver.

- George-

Who made all this stuff

out of peanuts-

blankets, peanut silverware...

a peanut car, a peanut gun.

- No, he didn't.

- He made some peanut stuff.

And he was a slave.

I should've made something by now.

I'm 33 years old.

I sell peanuts.

I am peanuts.

You're such a guy.

Hey.

F***!

- I tried, babe.

- I know.

I'll get the next one, babe,

all the way.

- I know.

- I love you.

Love you too.

- Hello.

- Doug. Mitch from Donaldson's.

- Hey.

- We've made our choice.

Between you and me, Richard

failed his drug test- spectacularly.

So it was you and Donnie Wahls

from Lakeview.

But he's pretty junior.

So I'm calling to say

welcome aboard.

- Oh, man.

- Yeah.

I just wanted to say welcome aboard.

Oh, hey. Welcome aboard

to you too, Mitch.

- Yeah. Doug, we'll see you on the seventh at 8:00 a. m.

- Okay, yeah.

- Hey-Hey, Mitch. Thanks.

- See you, Doug.

Standing downtown,

I thought of everything that happened.

Was I the better man?

I don't know.

I just know I started running.

Maybe because

I got something I needed.

And if I met Richard

in the street or somewhere...

I think I could still

shake his hand.

So was I the better man?

I don't know.

I just felt like a man.

Man, I hadn't felt that good

since I placed silver in Boys'Apparatus-

in theJunior Olympics.

Yeah!

I never saw Richard again, but I heard

he went back to Canada with his family...

back to his old grocery.

I also heard he put out a storage room fire

with his bare hands or something...

and got promoted to manager.

There are rumors he started the fire himself

for self-promotion purposes.

But either way,

he's a higher-up now.

And that's cool, because he can

get a place for his wife and girl.

He can save a little something

off to the side for himself too.

I don't know, maybe a new chopper.

#Put your face where we can see it #

#Put it on a show on cable #

# You can really show it all there #

# Turn it on when you are able #

# Turn it on #

# Turn it on and all the way up #

# Turn it on #

#In your houses when you wake up #

# Turn it on #

# When you ain't got no relation #

# To all those other stations #

# Turn it on #

#Put your life into a bubble #

# We can pick you up on radar #

#Hit a satellite with feeling #

# Give the people

what they paid for #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# Turn it on and all the way up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

#In your houses when you wake up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# When you ain't got no relation #

# To all those other stations #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# Turn it on and all the way up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

#In your houses when you wake up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# When you ain't got no relation #

# To all those other stations #

# Turn it on #

Shh. Turn it on.

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# Turn it on and all the way up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

#In your houses when you wake up #

# Turn it on #

# When you ain't got no relation #

# To all those other stations #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

# Turn it on and all the way up #

- # Turn it on #

- # Turn it on #

#In your houses when you wake up #

# Turn it on #

# When you ain't got no relation #

# To all those other stations #

# Turn it on #

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