The Business of Strangers

2001
K-11
1h 24m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

3.8K

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Drama Thriller

Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

3.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 6 nominations

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Stockard Channing and Tony Devon in The Business of Strangers (2001)

Julia Stiles in The Business of Strangers (2001)

Frederick Weller in The Business of Strangers (2001)

Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, and Frederick Weller in The Business of Strangers (2001)

Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles in The Business of Strangers (2001)

Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles at an event for The Business of Strangers (2001)

Julia Stiles at an event for The Business of Strangers (2001)

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Goofs
When the three are in the hotel room together, it is obviously dark outside and the time is even stated at being "midnight". However, when the television is turned on, the news channel is running live stock quotes (something that would only happen during the day) and the time on the television reads "1:30PM"

Quotes
Julie: I've just been made Chief Executive Officer.
Nick: No shit. Congrats. Hey, we can leverage this for that Pacific Net job.
Julie: I thought you said they were about to go belly-up.
Nick: With all due respect, I wasn't talking to CEO material before.
Julie: Listen, I was a bit harsh on you before...let me buy you a drink.
Paula: OK.
[to waiter]
Paula: Martell XO supreme.
Waiter: That's twenty dollars a glass.
Paula: I'll have a double.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Ocean's Eleven/The Business of Strangers/The Independent (2001)

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Ladykillers beware! :)

Poignant tale of two eager women; one has passed her prime and bears the scares of the still male dominated business world of the early new millennium is aggressively portrayed to a 'T' (as in Tenacious) by Stockard Channing who is chillingly ruthless from frame to frame. The other younger, equally crafty, as well as wickedly sly woman is played by Julia Stiles who no doubt is cast by design to steal the glances of the male audience as well as opposite genders in this story of destructive payback.

Stiles' character is manipulatively calculating as she subtly unfolds a selfish plan to map a path to own success yet who's comeuppance could inevitably be in her near future at the hands of her adversary's lofty rank or possibly visa-versa given that both become disillusioned by the cardinal sins of greed, envy and last but certainly not least, lust. Gets off the track a bit with the man-humiliation angle which may have went a bit to far but both Channing is stellar and Stiles is something to be reckoned with in this picture in more ways than one as both should be duly commended for their outstanding performances. Comparisons to Neil LaBute's powerful 1997 'In the Company of Men' are inevitable but still stands well on its own.

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