The Promotion

The Promotion is a 2008 American comedy film written and directed by Steven Conrad. A look at the quest for the American Dream, it focuses on two grocery store managers vying for a promotion.

Doug Stauber Seann William Scott is the assistant manager of a branch of Donaldsons, a supermarket chain in Chicago. He believes that he is a shooin for manager of a Donaldsons that is scheduled for construction just a few blocks away from his home. Everyday, Doug deals with the pressures of being the assistant manager. Among his ordeals are an unruly gang of teenagers loitering around the parking lot, the overwhelming amount of negative comments on the customer survey cards he collects nearly all of which are caused by the gangs antics, a foreigner who constantly slaps him over a box of Teddy Grahams and the rumors about him being a former Junior Olympics medalist in gymnastics. Then one day, Richard Wehlner John C. Reilly and his family move in from Quebec, and he becomes assistant manager alongside Doug.Over the course of the film, the two men fight for the managerial job, trying to impress the stores manager Scott Fred Armisen and the Donaldsons board of directors, led by Mitch Gil Bellows. The competition causes strain on their respective marriages. Doug is under financial pressure to get the job because he has begun to buy a house that he cannot afford if he is not promoted while his wife Jen Jenna Fischer ponders on going to night school. Meanwhile, Richards wife Laurie Lili Taylor and daughter leave him to temporarily move to her parents home in Scotland when she sees he is losing control and reverting to previous problem behavior. ........

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