Management (2009)


Woody Harrelson         Jango
Dominic Fumusa          Stan Ball
Jennifer Aniston        Sue
Steve Zahn              Mike
Margo Martindale        Trish
Fred Ward               Jerry
Katie O'Grady           Corporate Bliss Receptionist
Kevin Heffernan         Jed
Don Burns               Businessman
Kimberly Howard         Colleague
Mark Boone Junior Jr.   Jack

Directed by:            Stephen Belber
Produced by:            Bill Horberg, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen


Mike Cranshaw and Sue Claussen have a chance encounter when Sue checks into the roadside motel owned by 
Mike's parents in Arizona. What starts with a bottle of wine "compliments of management" soon evolves into 
a multi-layered, cross-country journey of two people looking for a sense of purpose. Mike, an aimless dreamer, 
bets it all on a trip to Sue's workplace in Maryland â?? only to find that she has no place for him in her 
carefully ordered life. Buttoned down and obsessed with making a difference in the world, Sue goes back to 
her yogurt mogul ex-boyfriend Jango, who promises her a chance to head his charity operations. But, having 
found something worth fighting for, Mike pits his hopes against Sue's practicality, and the two embark on 
a twisted, bumpy, freeing journey to discover that their place in the world just might be together.

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Mike works at his parents' motel in Kingman, population 27,000, on old Route 66. Sue sells art for a 
Baltimore firm to corporations for office walls. He takes one look at her from behind as she registers 
at the motel and determines to connect. He's sweet, but hapless, with no ambition other than spending 
time with her. She's enigmatic - rarely smiling, occasionally impulsive, committed to helping homeless 
people, feeling the clock tick after a breakup with a boyfriend who could have provided security. Is 
there any way he stands a chance with her? What can he offer?