Unfinished Business (2015)

A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable, and unimaginable.

Director:

Ken Scott

Writer:

Steve Conrad

Stars:

Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vince Vaughn	...	Dan Trunkman
Tom Wilkinson	...	Timothy McWinters
Dave Franco	...	Mike Pancake
Sienna Miller	...	Chuck Portnoy
June Diane Raphael	...	Susan Trunkman
Britton Sear	...	Paul Trunkman
Ella Anderson	...	Bess Trunkman
Nick Frost	...	Bill Whilmsley
James Marsden	...	Jim Spinch
Ken Scott	...	Tourist at German Hotel
Kasia Malinowska	...	Craigslist Maid
Carmen Lopez	...	Actual Maid
Melissa McMeekin	...	National Rental Clerk
Michael Krabbe	...	Dandlin Desk Clerk
Uwe Ochsenknecht	...	Maarten Daaervk

Storyline

A hard-working small business owner (Vince Vaughn) and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable - and unimaginable.

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Plot Keywords:

business trip | company | glory hole | businessman | quitting job | 

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Taglines:

Caution: not safe for work.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, and for language and drug use

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 March 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Business Trip

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,772,613, 8 March 2015, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$10,214,013, 12 April 2015

Company Credits

Production Co:

Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Escape Artists

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Just before they hit the deer, they say on the phone they are on the Autobahn, but it is just a Bundesstraße, and the speed limit is one hundred kilometers (sixty-two miles) per hour, so they are travelling way over the speed limit at one hundred miles (one hundred sixty-one kilometers) per hour.

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Goofs

During the demonstration the banners show "Welcome to Berlin 2014 Annual Diplomatic Summit." That has nothing to do with the G8 summit, which, by the way in 2014 happened to be in Sochi, Russia. The last G8 in Germany was in 2007 in Heiligendamm far away from Berlin.

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Quotes

Susan Trunkman: It's been a tough week.
Dan Trunkman: Yeah. Well. How about I drive?
Susan Trunkman: Yes, please.
Dan Trunkman: Flügel schlagen.
Susan Trunkman: What?
Dan Trunkman: Something I learned on my trip. It means, "You have to fight like hell... but don't forget to catch your breath now and then... and realize that everything's gonna be all right." Or it means "Turn left," probably.

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Connections

References Tales from the Crypt (1989)

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Soundtracks

Awake Today (Option 1)
Written by Eric Goldman, Lauren Vogel, and Danny Olson
Performed by Lauren Vogel
Courtesy of The LA Outfit

User Reviews

Gratuitous and unfunny; a waste of a good cast.

I love gratuitousness in comedies. Movies like Harold & Kumar push the envelope so far as to what's appropriate to laugh at that it just becomes absurdly entertaining. I also love comedy in my comedies. Sadly, Vince Vaughn's latest alleged comedy Unfinished Business has all the gratuitousness you could ever want, but falls short on the funny.

It is intermittently amusing. And by that I mean a few moments make you smile, chuckle even, due to the ridiculousness of the situation they're in. The cast - Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, and Tom Wilkinson - are fine. Nick Frost also has a small role, which should have been fleshed out because he has the most entertaining parts of the movie. The problem is the material just isn't good. The writing is choppy, uneven, and distractingly terrible. It would've been better for the cast to improv for an hour-and-a-half, that would at least be entertaining. The story here tries to tie together an explicit raunchy comedy with a homely family drama and a vain attempt at a business narrative that revolves completely around "the handshake." It just makes no sense, from a cohesion standpoint and a movie-making standpoint - how on earth was this green-lit? Who was the audience for this? Certainly not kids, definitely not adults. Who thought this was a good idea?

It's a shame because I really like Vince Vaughn. He is fine in the movie, as is the rest of the cast, but they have absolutely nothing to work with. Throwing all the boobs and penises in the world on screen does not make a good comedy. At the end of the day, Unfinished Business should have been left unfinished.