Rick

The amoral world of a handful of Wall Street businessmen is delineated in this black comedy written by Lemony Snicket creator Daniel Handler. Rick takes as its central character a mid-level manager (Bill Pullman) working in a nameless corporation for a boss, Duke (Aaron Stanford), who's nearly half ...more

Rick starts out as an entertainingly scabrous anti-capitalist satire, along the same lines as Mary Harron's American Psycho but played more for laughs. The opening scenes -- involving Rick (Bill Pullman), his callow, sex-obsessed young boss, Duke (Aaron Stanford), a disastrous job interview, and the subsequent encounter with Michelle (Sandra Oh), the humiliated prospective employee -- are a bitterly funny and trenchant critique of white-male corporate culture, and the satire only sharpens when ...more