“In Good Company”

I saw In Good Company last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s the story of a good man (he happens to be named Dan) who mentors Carter, a man half his age, showing him what a meaningful life is about.

As Dan’s daughter Alex says, she is “cursed with a functional family,” and that’s one of the things I love about this story. Carter’s pretty dysfunctional, but he–and everyone around–knows it. He’s drawn to Dan’s functional family and to Dan’s solid, loving marriage, his integrity, his sense of purpose, and his commitment to the people around him.

It’s refreshing to see a film in which the father and husband is totally admirable, rather than a buffoon, as is often the case in TV sitcoms and children’s cartoons.

Tagged as: family, father, Hollywood, masculinity, men, movies