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Title: Cedar Rapids (2011)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ed Helms | ... | Tim Lippe | |
| John C. Reilly | ... | Dean Ziegler | |
| Anne Heche | ... | Joan Ostrowski-Fox | |
| Isiah Whitlock Jr. | ... | Ronald Wilkes | |
| Stephen Root | ... | Bill Krogstad | |
| Kurtwood Smith | ... | Orin Helgesson | |
| Alia Shawkat | ... | Bree | |
| Thomas Lennon | ... | Roger Lemke | |
| Rob Corddry | ... | Gary | |
| Mike O'Malley | ... | Mike Pyle | |
| Sigourney Weaver | ... | Macy Vanderhei | |
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Inga R. Wilson | ... | Gwen Lemke |
| Mike Birbiglia | ... | Trent | |
| Seth Morris | ... | Uncle Ken | |
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Christopher Lemon | ... | Rock Climbing Dude #1 |
Tim Lippe (Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just ... didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown Valley, Wisconsin his whole life, still "pre-engaged" to his 7th grade teacher Macy Vanderhei (Weaver), while selling insurance to protect other people's dreams. But now, Tim's stalled life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he's headed to a "major" metropolis - Cedar Rapids, Iowa - where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be entirely unconventional. From the minute he checks into his hotel with his ancient American Tourister and cummerbund money belt, it's clear Tim has no idea how the modern world really works. He is soon smitten with seductive Nebraskan insurance agent Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Heche) and awed by his experienced roommates, the straight-shooting Ronald Wilkes (Whitlock Jr.) and the suspicious Dean Zeigler (Reilly). Disheartened when he comes ... Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures
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My first 2011 film. It's a pretty unambitious comedy, but it survives because of a fantastic cast. Too fantastic, really. I have to wonder what drew them to this rather middling material. Ed Helms (of The Office and The Daily Show) stars as a sheltered insurance salesman from a small town in northern Wisconsin who is drafted by his boss (Stephen Root) to go to an insurance conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He's pretty inexperienced with life outside his own little bubble, and he gets led astray by troublemaker John C. Reilly. The film also co-stars Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. (who co-starred in HBO's The Wire, a series for which the character espouses a lot of love), Anne Heche (extremely good - probably the only good thing I've ever seen her done), Sigourney Weaver, Alia Shawkat (of the TV series (not the rap group) Arrested Development) and Kurtwood Smith (of That 70s Show and RoboCop). I wanted to see this one because of its Midwestern setting. Part of me was afraid that it would be Hollywood making fun of Midwesterners, but it's pretty gentle. Helms may play a sheltered small-town guy, but it's just him (Reilly's character is from Steven's Point, WI, and he's not a rube; he is a drunk, though). The film actually has a lot of affection for the Midwest, and it has a lot of heart.