The Business of Strangers Movie Review 2001

Julie Styron (Channing) is a tough, middleaged executive for a software company who is having a bad day at an out-of-town meeting. She worries she's about to be fired and then fires her young assistant Paula (Stiles) for missing the meeting and ruining Julie's presentation. Instead, Julie gets a promotion and decides to rehire Paula after they diss men over drinks at the hotel bar. When Paula spots corporate headhunter Nick (Weller), she tells Julie that he raped a friend of hers and it's payback time. But since the two women have been playing mind games, is this the truth or not?

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 83 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Corporate Shenanigans, Female Bonding, Grand Hotel, Only the Lonely, Betrayal

Screenplay

Patrick Stettner

Cast

Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller, Marcus Giamatti

Cinematography

Teodoro Maniaci

Director

Patrick Stettner

Music

Alexander Lasarenko

Other

Noah Vivekanand Timan, Keiko Deguchi, Richard Burgess, Kasia Walicka Maimone, Dawn Weisberg, Dina Goldman

Producer

Susan A. Stover, Robert H. Nathan, i5 Picture, Headquarters, IFC Films