June 23, 2015
Unfinished Business
Michael Cox READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Is it possible to mix the lowest of frat-boy humor with something heartfelt and sincere? That's what "Unfinished Business" attempts to do with enough cute kids and warm family moments to charm your grandma and enough gratuitous dick humor to please the crowd at a kegger.
Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) can't stand his job at Dynamic Systems. He's a good salesman but his ball-busting boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller) takes advantage of him and cuts his commission. In a big show, Dan quits the company and offers his co-workers (who dislike Portnoy as well) the opportunity to get the hell out of there with him.
Only two people take him up on the offer: Tim McWinters (Tom Wilkinson), who was actually let go from Dynamic -- mandatory retirement -- and an earnest but simple kid who never actually worked for the company but was trying to get a job in the mail room, Mike Pancake (Dave Franco).
A year later, Dan's company has gotten nowhere and his efforts are ready to implode. His struggles to land investors will take him across the country and over to Europe, only to watch his emasculating former employer beat him to the punch.
But while Portnoy has one investor in her back pocket, Jim Spinch (James Marsden), Dan gets a bit of a poke from the exposed penis of another investor, Bill Whilmsley (Nick Frost).
All the business travel is a strain on Dan, but Tim and Mike are having the time of their lives, discovering drugs and new sexual positions in Berlin as well as a dipping into the leather-clad fetish parties of Folsom Europe. It's a wild ride full of crazy adventures that eventually leads the team back to home and family.
"Like it's very subtle on the page," says Franco in the special feature "Show Me Your Business: Making 'Unfinished Business'" "but it's fucking crazy what we're doing." Nonsensical as that is, it actually sums up this movie in a lot of ways.
On one hand it's a heart-filled, sentimental film about family and friendship, while on the other, it's all forbidden pleasures and cock. There are so many penises in this movie actually -- Dan's is featured in a close-up shot, bulging in tight pants; Mike pulls on one of many lined up in a row of glory holes and of course there is the metaphorical genitalia being castrated by a powerful woman.
In addition to "Show Me Your Business," this Blu-ray features some deleted scenes and a strange photo gallery. The photos in this gallery are not from the movie, rather they are posed stock photos that look like they been taken from "Fortune Magazine" and they mostly feature Franco smiling and looking professional.
"Unfinished Business"
Blu-ray
Rated R | 91 minutes
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