Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 2011
Country: USA
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Languages: English
Director: Miguel Arteta
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Writing by: Phil Johnston – (written by)

Produced by: Brian Bell – co-producer
Jim Burke – producer
Ed Helms – executive producer
Alexander Payne – producer
Jim Taylor – producer

Cast: Ed Helms – Tim Lippe
John C. Reilly – Dean Ziegler
Anne Heche – Joan Ostrowski-Fox
Isiah Whitlock Jr. – Ronald Wilkes
Stephen Root – Bill Krogstad
Kurtwood Smith – Orin Helgesson
Alia Shawkat – Bree
Rob Corddry – Gary
Mike O'Malley – Mike Pyle
Sigourney Weaver – Macy Vanderhei
Inga R. Wilson – Gwen Lemke

Music: Christophe Beck
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Plot Outline:

Tim Lippe has no idea what he's in for when he's sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to represent his company at an annual insurance convention, where he soon finds himself under the "guidance" of three convention veterans.

Plot: Tim Lippe (Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just … didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown Valley, Wisconsin his whole life, still “pre-engaged” to his 7th grade teacher Millie Vanderhei (Weaver), while selling insurance to protect other people's dreams. But now, Tim's stalled life is about to get a kick-start because, for the first time in his 34 years, he's headed to a “major” metropolis – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – where he must try to save his company at a do-or-die insurance convention that, for him, will be entirely nonconventional. From the minute he checks into his hotel with his ancient American Tourister and cummerbund money-belt, it's clear Tim has no idea how the modern world really works. He is soon smitten with seductive Nebraskan insurance agent Joan (Heche) and awed by his experienced roommates, the straight-shooting Wilkes (Whitlock Jr.) and the suspicious Zeigler (Reilly). Disheartened when he comes face-to-face with corporate corruption, Tim is ultimately lured beyond the lobby into an urban jungle he's only ever seen on DVD and when it seems his life – and chances to succeed – have gone completely topsy-turvy, he finds his own unjaded way to turn it all around.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Kate Winslet was once attached to star as Juliet, but she was replaced by Emily Blunt.
• Ewan McGregor and Kate Winslet were once attached to star when the movie was initially announced.
• James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart appear together in this film. Stewart previously appeared in Dune (1984), while McAvoy appeared in 'Children of Dune (2003)'. McAvoy also took over Stewart's role of Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class (2011).