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Dan Foreman (Dennis
Quaid) is a man in his mid-forties who has spent 20 years as the head of
advertising sales for Sports America, a leading athletics magazine. Dan is
happily married to Ann (Marg Helgenberger) and has a college-age daughter, Alex
(Scarlett Johansson), whom he dotes on, but Dan's comfortable life is given a
major shake-up when a large multimedia firm buys the magazine. Dan is demoted to
second in command of advertising, and his position is handed over to Carter
Duryea (Topher Grace), a 26-year-old who talks a good game about sales but has
no practical experience in the field. Dan's wounded ego makes working with the
arrogant Carter an uphill battle, but when he learns that Ann is expecting
another baby, Dan is in no position to quit. Before long, Dan becomes aware that
Carter the younger man is reaching out to him for guidance, but this doesn't
make Dan any less angry when Carter begins a romance with Alex after his
marriage to Kimberley (Selma Blair) crashes and burns.
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