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The Company You Keep

Brightlight Pictures

Kingsgate Films

Voltage Pictures

TCYK North Productions

Wildwood Enterprises

Canada

United States of America

English

Robert Redford

Shia LaBeouf

Nick Nolte

Brendan Gleeson

Terrence Howard

Susan Sarandon

Chris Cooper

Stanley Tucci

Julie Christie

Richard Jenkins

Anna Kendrick

Brit Marling

Sam Elliott

Stephen Root

Jackie Evancho

Keegan Connor Tracy

Lochlyn Munro

Matthew Kimbrough

Gabrielle Rose

Lucie Guest

Susan Hogan

Erin Simms

Bethany Brown

Kelly-Ruth Mercier

Gabriela Reynoso

Marsha Regis

Andrea Brooks

Dawn Chubai

Sophie Lui

Allison Riley

Donna Lysell

Nicole G. Leier

Jennifer Bradley

David Milchard

David James Lewis

Jon Johnson

Isaiah Adam

John Shaw

Bernie Yao

Bruce Dawson

Jackson Warris

Dale Wolfe

Mark Brandon

Jan Bos

Clay St. Thomas

Barry Bowman

Hiro Kanagawa

Fred Henderson

Andrew Airlie

Dan Gerrity

Mark Pawson

Jason Blue

Peter Jenkins

G. Michael Gray

Ed Huber

Ian Gregson

Pierre Wolff

Anthony Welch

Jessica Williams

Lexie Huber

Nicole Smashnuk

Lem Dobbs

Neil Gordon

Bill Holderman

Nicolas Chartier

Adriano Goldman

Mark Day

Avy Kaufman

Margery Kimbrough

J.J. Makaro

Cliff Martinez

Craig J. Flores

Mike Warren

Nick Vecchio

Albert van den Hoorn

Nicole Stojkovich

Anoop Singh

Temple Rohl-Burdekin

Gabriela Rosas

Christine Reyes

Allison Reshel

Wendy O'Neill

Daniel O'Leary

Barb Miller

Nerissa McCormack

Brenda McClellan

Margo MacPherson

Chris Layton

Faria Khan

Donna Kail

Gordon Juli

Kimball Jansma

Carmela Evangelista

Melissa Crich

Jonathan Cairns

Josée Brodeur

Deb Beaudreau

Kristian Bakstad

Tiffany Ainsworth

Max Zaritsky

John O'Toole

Frank Stastny

Rod McDonald

Ray Laine

Mal Johnson

Mike Godenir

Ron Gavin

Ray Fairchild

Rusty Engelland

Vern Dexter

Scott Delaplace

Michael Davidovitch

Larry Boyce

Maarten Hofmeijer

John Bissell

Tim Moshansky

Trevor Brokop

Terry MacKay

Stephen Nakamura

Dario Di Vito

Jennifer Del Rey

Hermione Byrt

J. Cody Baker

Shelly Shaw

Sandra Watson

Briana Scott

Karin Nosella

Lana S. Krause

Debbie Humphreys

Maureen Webb

Barbara Harris

Sandra-Ken Freeman

Doreen Ferreira

Marina Alstad

Tom Watson

Jiohnny Walker

Jim Van Dijk

Jarrod Tiffin

David Tickell

Vince Phillips

Andrew Pedley

Kent Ogilvie

James McMurachy

Alexandra Matheson

Steve Machan

Doug Lavender

Jan Klompje

Kieran Humphries

Jeff Grimshire

Doane Gregory

Andrew Capicik

Dave Askey

Kazuyoshi Yamagiwa

Mike Wearing

Brent Veal

Eric Stull

Just found this in the bargain bin for $3.  What a cast! Shia had such potential, very intense, perfect for this role. Maybe he can find his way out of wherever he is now and become the great actor he was on the brink of being.  In general, the cast just looked old and tired for the activities they had to perform.  I found that took away from what was a very interesting and varied plot line with enough  twists to keep me interested for the whole 2 hours plus.  I do recommend this film and it will go on my 'keepers' shelf for future viewing.

The Company You Keep keeps excellent company; Robert Redford, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Terrence Howard, Sam Elliott, Stephen Root, Julie Christie, Richard Jenkins. I would usually say that no movie can be bad that includes these people (even Stanley Tucci and Shia LaBeouf; Anna Kendrick as an FBI agent, on the other hand — that dog will not hunt, Monsignor), but the movie turns out to be too much of a good thing; these actors are capable of generating such a massive amount of gravitas that Redford, who also directs, ends up losing control and the film falls under its own weight.

All those names in the credits make TCYK seem deeper than it really is, until we discover that screenwriter Lem Dobbs didn't bother to give them anything to do or say; as good as this cast is, they’re not miracle workers — in Lear’s words, “nothing will come of nothing.”

Thus, many of them are reduced to glorified cameos, which tends to be counterproductive. What's the point of a Richard Jenkins cameo when nine out of 10 people in the audience have not the slightest idea who Richard Jenkins is?

Or, if they recognize Root, it’s in a Troy McClure sort of way; i.e., "you may remember me from Office Space or Dodgeball." Redford, doing a The Fugitive routine as a former member of the Weather Underground, briefly insinuates himself, only to depart as abruptly as he appeared, into the lives of these individuals, none of whom we ever see again. You don't need Nick Nolte for this; for this you get Gary Busey (the poor man's Nick Nolte) and move on.

Curiously, the real-life Weather Underground had strong Black Power ties, but all the ex-members we see in the film could very well pass for WASPs. At the same time, the only black character, federal agent Cornelius (Howard) is a representative of law and order — but no more of an 'Uncle Tom' than hippies playing revolution turned middle-class bourgeois three decades later.

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