Price Check (2012)
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
Price Check (2012)
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Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 92 minutes
Directors: Michael Walker
Writers: Michael Walker
Casts: Elizabeth Masucci, Marceline Hugot, Josh Pais, Eric Mabius, Parker Posey, Steve Park, Jayce Bartok, Joseph D'Onofrio, Matt Servitto, Selena Mars, Edward Herrmann, Annie Parisse, Britta Phillips, Dean Wareham, Amy Schumer, Remy Auberjonois, Cheyenne Jackson, Victor Cruz, Juan Luis Acevedo, Frank Amoruso, Brian Berrebbi, Natalie Best, Julia Bray, Teena Byrd, Samrat Chakrabarti, Xosha Roquemore, Finn Donoghue, Matt Walker, Mylinda Hull, Faith Sandberg, Stephen Kunken, Jennifer Mudge, John Fugelsang, Shea Curtin, Elle Donoghue, Christopher Douros, Nicholas Martorell Jr., Leslie C. Nemet, Mike O'Brien, Meghan Anne Riley, Nate Steinwachs, Isaac Wilson, A.J. Wladyka
IMDB: Price Check (2012)
Storyline
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
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Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly -
Posey, her attention divided up into slivers, is funny as hell, but she's also terrifying in her evocation of a kind of moment-to-moment PowerPoint existence.
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The Playlist -
Price Check never successfully makes the shift into a higher-stakes scenario, and the chief culprit is a detour to Los Angeles. The tension between Susan and Pete suddenly lapses into a far more conventional direction.
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New York Post -
A hilarious Parker Posey provides her customary blast of brittle energy in Price Check, an engaging corporate comedy.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
A prime example of the type of well-produced, smartly cast independent features that Sundance has been helping launch into the theatrical marketplace over the past few years.
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NPR -
Posey dominates Price Check, mostly for the better: Whatever observations Walker's film makes about the perils of ambition or women in the workplace register entirely through her. She's simply funnier and more interesting than anyone else, and Walker has written her a complex character whose immediate wants are clearer than her long-term ones.
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Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
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Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.