This glossy comedy drama from writer/director Paul Weitz (About a Boy) is an entertaining foray into the world of male relationships. In the aftermath of a company takeover, young hotshot Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) takes the job and the office of likeable, seasoned boss Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid). As the displaced executive, Quaid manages to look both tough and tender - he's equally concerned for the future of his daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson) as he is for his fellow workers. These professional and personal lives collide when Carter and Alex begin seeing each other, threatening to destroy the men's already unsteady alliance. Weitz's tale could have been a cold, cutting display of the value of youth over experience, but he plays it warm and cuddly instead. Although that means there's a whiff of inevitability about it all, the fine cast still offers up plenty of surprises.

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.