Unfinished Business
- Director: Ken Scott
- Writer: Steve Conrad
- Producer: Todd Black; David J. Bloomfield
CGiii Comment
Did anyone actually read the script before the cameras started rolling?!?
Because...dear hearts, for a comedy...it's a flaccid fiasco.
Dave Franco...comedy is not your thing.
Tom Wilkinson...what were you thinking?
Vince Vaughn...starting to become a habit.
You will have to wait 52 minutes before the gay bit...Nick Frost is a rubber-clad bear in a toilet with numerous 'occupied' glory-holes...
It's not exactly a highlight in this dim-witted, squib of a film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 imaginable - and unimaginable - way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
This raunchy comedy follows a group of failed businessmen who travel to Germany in hopes of making a deal that will save their floundering company. Comedian Nick Frost appears as Bill, the presumed intermediary to the deal who turns out to be an assistant. The three men track him down at a gay bar during the Folsom Europe street fair. Leading man Dan is speaking with two disembodied men on the other side of a wall who are encouraging him to perform sexual favors on them (audiences only see the men’s genitalia) before recognizing Bill’s voice when a third person shows up. Bill, Dan, and his business partners spend the evening partying, and Bill shares that he has turned to anonymous public sex out of insecurity relating to his size and age. While Bill’s story is mostly confined to this one night of partying, he does drive the plot forward by encouraging the men to meet with his boss and close the deal that could save their firm when they are ready to give up. The most that can be said of the film is that it manages to mostly subvert the expected gay panic as Dan simply replies he isn’t interested, rather than expressing disgust at a man blatantly hitting on him.
Rauchy?!? Define raunchy! It is not raunchy. But, hey, no gay panic...so, it's all good with GLAAD!
Cast & Characters
Vince Vaughn as Dan Trunkman;
Tom Wilkinson as Timothy McWinters;
Dave Franco as Mike Pancake;
Sienna Miller as Chuck Portnoy;
June Diane Raphael as Susan Trunkman;
Britton Sear as Paul Trunkman;
Ella Anderson as Bess Trunkman;
Nick Frost as Bill Whilmsley;
James Marsden as Jim Spinch;
Ken Scott as Tourist at German Hotel;
Kasia Malinowska as Craigslist Maid;
Carmen Lopez as Actual Maid;
Melissa McMeekin as National Rental Clerk;
Michael Krabbe as Dandlin Desk Clerk;
Uwe Ochsenknecht as Maarten Daaervk