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seeing Aniston play a messy character every once in a while. It reminds me that she’s a real actress. Long, shiny hair doesn’t make a role, after all.
The movie’s biggest fault was throwing Woody Harrelson into the mix as an ex-punk-turned-yogurt company owner named Jango. Yes, Jango. He also happens to be Aniston’s ex-boyfriend whom she begins dating again. The character was just too out there for you to ever believe that this would be someone Aniston’s straitlaced character would go for.
And of course there are some real-life discrepancies. Like, what woman in her right mind would let a strange man into her seedy motel room – even if he was management! But hey, it’s a movie so I’ll go with it. Stranger things have happened.
Management is harmless, though. Is it a movie you have to run to the theaters to see? Not while the likes of Star Trek and Terminator: Salvation are around. But don’t rule it out completely.
Movie Grade: B
When Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona, what starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of MANAGEMENT" soon evolves into a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland – only to find that she has no place for him in her carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango (Woody Harrelson), who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But, having found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together. |