A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.A traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.
Don Burns
- Businessman
- (as Don Stewart Burns)
Mark Boone Junior
- Jack
- (as Mark Boone Jr.)
Josh Lucas
- Barry
- (as Easy Dent)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe screenplay for this film was featured in the 2007 Blacklist, a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.
- GoofsNear the beginning of the movie Sue (Jennifer Aniston) is sitting in her hotel room on the bed looking down at the email screen on her laptop. The left-hand side of the screen shows there are 4 unread emails but there are actually 8 unread emails. The top right-hand corner of the screen says 'Viewing messages: 1 to 8 (8 total)' but there are actually 15 messages displayed.
- Quotes
Sue Claussen: I wrote you a Haiku. Do you wanna hear it?
Mike: Sure.
Sue Claussen: Mike, oh Mike, my man Keeps showing up like UPS Sue, you're such a bitch.
Mike: ...I like it!
- Crazy creditsOfficial Dog-Punk Consultant: Jeremy Norton
- Alternate versionsThere are three different versions, although only two different runtimes. These are: "1h 34m (94 min), 1h 34m (94 min) (United States)" and "1h 33m (93 min) (Toronto International)".
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Star Trek/Rudo y Cursi/Next Day Air (2009)
- SoundtracksHangover Days
Written by Jason Collett
Performed by Jason Collett
Courtesy of Arts & Crafts Productions, Inc.
Featured review
Tries too hard
"Management" isn't necessarily a bad film -- I just found it entirely disengaging. Judging from some of the early feedback, I was expecting a sweet (if predictable) "indie" romantic comedy. I'm not a big fan of Jennifer Aniston, but she plays her types of roles well enough, and Steve Zahn proved with "Rescue Dawn" that he's an underrated actor.
My problem with "Management" is that it plays into the quirky subgenre clichés far too easily. I'd bet the director is a big Hal Ashby or Mike Nichols fan -- this comes off like an uneasy mix of "Harold and Maude" and "The Graduate." Its protagonist is a borderline stalker.
That's not inherently negative, but I just felt like there was no real spark between Aniston and Zahn. The whole thing felt very...calculated. It wasn't naturally offbeat -- and, as a result, I was left wondering why we're supposed to feel any type of entertainment in watching these people.
My problem with "Management" is that it plays into the quirky subgenre clichés far too easily. I'd bet the director is a big Hal Ashby or Mike Nichols fan -- this comes off like an uneasy mix of "Harold and Maude" and "The Graduate." Its protagonist is a borderline stalker.
That's not inherently negative, but I just felt like there was no real spark between Aniston and Zahn. The whole thing felt very...calculated. It wasn't naturally offbeat -- and, as a result, I was left wondering why we're supposed to feel any type of entertainment in watching these people.
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- Nov 9, 2009
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Quản Lý Người Yêu
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $934,658
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $378,000
- May 17, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $2,566,648
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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