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	The Business of Strangers \| Movie Review \| Entertainment Weekly
		magazine-era, middle-aged executive (Stockard Channing) and her Jane magazine-era young assistant (Julia Stiles) in The Business of Strangers are fully intended.
		''Strangers,'' a feature debut by writer-director Patrick Stettner, is more diagrammatic and less organic in its show-offy dismantling of the first-generation-feminist notion that Sisterhood Is Powerful; sisterhood, it turns out, is skin-deep, with the smooth retaining an edge over the wrinkled.
		None of this detracts, however, from the terrific piss-and-merlot performances of Channing and Stiles, or from the committed participation of Frederick Weller as a Neil LaBute-era businessman caught in the lounge between two she-devils disguised as businesswomen.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,187306,00.html (360 words)

	Business - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In other words, the owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives to receive or generate a financial return for their time, effort and capital.
		The authorative list of business types for North America (although it is widely used around the world) is generally considered to be the NAICS, or North American Industry Classification System.
		Thus a fisherman might say either (more colloquially) that he is in the "fishing business" or (somewhat grandiosely) that he works in the "fishing industry".
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /business.htm (794 words)

	Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Thus a fisherman might say either (more colloquially) that he is in the " fishing business" or (somewhat grandiosely) that he works in the "fishing industry".
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	Business Of Strangers Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In other words, the owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives to receive orgenerate a financial return for their time, effort and capital.
		This definition resembles one of the more general meanings of "business", and the terms business and industry sometimes appear interchangeable.
		Thus a fisherman might sayeither (more colloquially) that he is in the " fishing business" or (somewhatgrandiosely) that he works in the "fishing industry".
	www.swingdancemusic.com /send/36068-business%20of%20strangers%20review... (717 words)

	Business of Strangers, The (2001): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In The Business of Strangers the right words are hard to come by, but the truth of them -- and the lies -- cut to the quick.
		The Business of Strangers goes too far in dramatizing Julie's primal, Paula-fied surge of female fury, and the script finally mistakes respectful ambiguity for vaporous drift.
		When "The Business of Strangers" moves into darker territory, we should be relieved, since a film about female bonding could be a drag.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/businessofstrangers (1122 words)

	The Business of Strangers (2001)
		We meet her in the sterile surroudings of a business trip: a generic airport, a taxi cab, a fluorescent-lit meeting room.
		The Business of Strangers could have suffered from its very sterile and unchanging setting, but it shines with riveting performances by leads, especially the fabulous Stockard Channing, who has her best role in years.
		Though Business suffers slightly from its final third (which in my mind wasn't necessary to keep the film interesting), it still is a fine acting showcase, giving us (for once!) well-written female characters.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/business_of_strangers.htm (402 words)

	THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS
		Every film-festival blurb I've seen for The Business of Strangers hails the picture as a female version of Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men, which kind of sucks because, if you've seen that film, you'll have a pretty good idea how the twist at the end will play out.
		Julie brushes the incident off because she's too busy scheduling an impromptu meeting with a corporate headhunter named Nick Harris (Fred Weller) in anticipation of her engagement with the CEO, which she assumes will result in her termination.
		Strangers is a very promising debut, but the quality of Stettner's writing and directing is topped only by a wonderful performance from Channing (easily her finest since Six Degrees of Separation, and possibly her best ever).
	www.sick-boy.com /businessofstrangers.htm (575 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "The Business of Strangers"
		Watching "The Business of Strangers" you know that it's only a matter of time before the barely disguised hostility between the two characters -- a successful businesswoman (Stockard Channing) and her young, punkish assistant (Julia Stiles) -- results in emotional freakout.
		The faint praise I can offer "The Business of Strangers" is that the writer/director, Patrick Stettner, making his feature debut, shows a smidgen more humanity than is typical for this type of movie.
		"The Business of Strangers" is very much about how corporate jobs become both all-consuming and alienating -- the only person Julie seems at all close to is her secretary and even that's an impersonal connection, tethered as they are by cellphone.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/12/11/business_strangers/print.html (2173 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - The Business of Strangers
		When all is said and done, The Business of Strangers isn't much more than a failed experiment with the audience serving as guinea pigs.
		While on a business trip Julie Styron (Stockard Channing), a career corporate executive, is promoted to CEO of her company.
		And that's the The Business of Strangers most glaring problem while Julie is a well-developed character, she doesn't have an effective catalyst to cause her to reveal fears and self-doubt.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/businessofstrangers.html (773 words)

	The Business of Strangers
		The one overriding moral lesson of The Business of Strangers is not to mess with pissed off drunk women.
		The Business of Strangers, the feature length debut of writer/director Patrick Stettner (Flux) is sharp and witty, but at times feels like an adapted stage play drawn out a little too long.
		This means that she will do whatever she can to further her career, so when the CEO of her company tells her he is flying in for an emergency meeting, she immediately suspects the worst and meets a headhunter.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/business_of_strangers.html (581 words)

	The Business of Strangers (2001) - A Review by David Nusair
		Besides the fact that the two share similar titles, both are concerned with business associates who pick out a victim to torment and proceed to do just that.
		And though The Business of Strangers isn't quite as effective as In the Company of Men - Stettner doesn't have Neil LaBute's flair for vitriolic dialogue - it is nonetheless an intriguing look at women behaving badly.
		What The Business of Strangers really boils down to is a couple of good performances and some really interesting dialogue.
	www.reelfilm.com /business.htm (437 words)

	The Business of Strangers
		In other words, The Business of Strangers shows how women seek to annihilate one another by jointly annihilating a man. To some extent, this characterization is true, at least in terms of a skeleton plot.
		When The Business of Strangers changes identities again—no longer a blunt allegory of the Establishment's cruelty toward the service class, nor a percolating peek at what two barely-introduced women might do with/for/to each other—it finally lunges toward the kind of Revenge Drama idiom reponsible for all those LaBute comparisons.
		Even more surprising is that The Business of Strangers culminates in a string of close-ups where various characters look baffled, ruminative, lost in thought: it is the kind of movie that ends not with decisive, provocative action (as one might all along have suspected) but with gazes into space.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /bustrang.html (921 words)

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	The Trades
		Buzz from critics, journalists, and most likely publicists is saying that "The Business of Strangers" will have the same affect on women and sex as "In the Company of Men" had with men.
		"The Business of Strangers" fails to be successful because it is too intent on exploring the sexual revelations of its characters.
		Instead of trumping "In the Company of Men," "The Business of Strangers" settles for a mockery of a discussion on rape.
	www.the-trades.com /column.php?columnid=934 (684 words)

	The Business of Strangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the Company of Men, is a brutal look at two misogynists who date and then dump a female coworker in retribution for all the women who'd previously done them wrong.
		The Business of Strangers appears to be a distaff take on the same tale.
		She learns that her boss is flying in to meet her for dinner, assumes she's being canned and arranges for her favorite headhunter Nick to fly in and discuss career possibilities.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies3/BusinessofStrangers.htm (588 words)

	The Business of Strangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That she has misinterpreted the situation so colossally probably says less about Julie than the brutal business world she inhabits, but still, it sets her up for what follows — namely, Paula’s increasingly complicated vengeance plot, which seems part ferocious spite, part meticulous calculation, and part arty concoction designed to show off acting chops.
		But while The Business of Strangers does make some room for Channing and Stiles to stretch out, its basic premise — the meanness of the business of strangers — is worn out.
		Paula’s apparent insight about women in business — "We express issue of doubt and control differently" — ends up lost: these women reflect the men they despise and envy.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/b/businessofstrangers.shtml (779 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Business of Strangers
		Although "Business of Strangers" doesn't provide a very rich color palette, the subdued colors seemed a touch bolder and crisper on this release.
		EXTRAS: The MGM release only has a trailer for "Business of Strangers", which is presented in the wrong aspect ratio (2.35:1 vs. the film's correct 1.85:1) and looks odd as a result.
		Final Thoughts: Although it started to fall apart somewhat in the last bit, I still thought "Business of Strangers" was a well-written, strongly acted piece that had great characters and some superb dialogue.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=4295 (1055 words)

	The Business of Strangers (2001) FILM SCAN --[ EDITING ROOM ] SCENE 360
		Yet “The Business of Strangers” is the business.
		In this particular aspect, “The Business of Strangers” reminds me of “Scent of a Woman” (1992), where the two main characters are forever impacted by spending a weekend together.
		Even the amount of parallels drawn so far indicates that “The Business of Strangers” isn’t as linear as it may appear at first glance.
	www.scene360.com /xtra/FilmScan/filmscan_08_business.html (1038 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Movies: You make the call in "The Business of Strangers"
		Channing is Julie Styron, a successful businesswoman with a community college education, who is on a business trip, one of apparently many she makes each week.
		At just 83 minutes long, "The Business of Strangers" whizzes by like a commuter jet and when the (brief) credits rolled, this reviewer was left pondering whether he liked what he had just seen.
		In fact, that's the result of the ambiguity of the film and it is that ambiguity that makes "The Business of Strangers" an interesting film.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /movies/articles/strangersbiz.html (597 words)

	Strangers and Faces: Patrick Stettner's The Business of Strangers
		The stranger is a part of our cultural mythology, presenting a threat to the community through his/her potential to express an objective viewpoint.
		To the stranger's eye, the community is as unfamiliar as he or she might seem to the community.
		All the community has is 'we', the power of numbers, to the stranger's 'I', a singular and unsupported notion.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/21/business_strangers.html (1398 words)

	DVD Review - The Business of Strangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Julia is a tough as nails executive who fought her way to the top and is fighting even harder to stay there.
		When Paula, her new assistant, arrives late on a business trip, Julia immediately arranges to have her employment with the company terminated.
		But after subsequent conversations with her secretary (and best friend), she fears that her own job is in danger and seeks the services of business headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller).
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews2/businessofstrangers.html (817 words)

	The Business of Strangers Review
		There is a brilliant moment early on in Patrick Stettner’s directorial debut The Business of Strangers when Stockard Channing unleashes a glare towards Julia Stiles that ran my blood cold.
		The result: a caustic power play of gender and business politics let loose on a cocky and unassuming rube played with a snide enthusiasm by Frederick Weller.
		Inherently strangers to their own selves, Julie and Paula’s games of sex and power do little but reveal their own heartbreak at a world they’ve perceived as being out to get them.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/b/bizofstrangers.htm (612 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Business of Strangers" review (2001) Patrick Stettner, Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles
		Stockard Channing submerges herself in layers of psychological debris as an aging, pinched corporate crocodile in "The Business of Strangers," a unsettling, canny film of Machiavellian manipulation, mind games and sexual conjecture.
		A retrospective apology lead to several rounds of drinks and a mutual recognition of their similar brash chutzpah and cold calculation of life -- and that leads to trust, which is a very dangerous emotion between people who are cold and calculating.
		The question of Stiles' veracity is intended to hang over the film like a storm cloud, but ironically it's in these later scenes that "Strangers" begins to lose some of its potency.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/bizstrangers.html (506 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Business of Strangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Never mind the recession, business seems to be booming in the unctuous corporate world of The Business of Strangers.
		The Business of Strangers is a fascinating and sardonic look at skirt-wearing corporate creatures, and their ability to be as equally and ridiculously ruthless as their opportunistic male counterparts.
		The Business of Strangers is a disturbing, finely acted showcase that sheds new light on female angst and its place in office politics.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/8623ec70f2dc7f1088256b1e001198f6?OpenDocument (639 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Busines of Strangers
		The Popkorn Junkie :: The Busines of Strangers
		This film stars Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles in a character based story that is basically a psychological battle between the two women, as well as their resulting revenge plot.
		The movie starts out where Julie (Stockard Channing), a successful business woman, is at the end of a long business trip and is relaxing in her hotel bar when Paula (Julia Stiles) shows up.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/businessofstrangers.html (294 words)

	The Business of Strangers Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Karl Marx propounded the theory that capitalism is a corrupting and oppressive system, and the scenario of The Business of Strangers makes a similar suggestion.
		Though the film has a stagebound quality it never quite escapes, and the depiction of power dynamics sometimes exceeds the realm of believability, writer/director Patrick Stettner has made a provocative work about sexual politics in the corporate world.
		It's pretty clear from this set-up where The Business of Strangers is going, and it's not long before a series of flight delays leads to Julie, Paula, and Nick being stranded together in the same airport hotel, guzzling down cocktails in the bar.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=132979 (1002 words)

	The Business of Strangers/THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS - DVD
		MGM's DVD release of The Business of Strangers offers the film in slick 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and unmatted presentations on the same side of a dual-layered disc.
		The one a predator, the other a survivor, the true strength of The Business of Strangers is that its characters are ever faithful to their personal methodology and character attributes, even when the story takes an uneasy turn into the sadistic.
		In that focus on character over moralizing, The Business of Strangers sets itself up to be perceived as less than the contemplation of its stickier moments in the hours and days following an initial viewing eventually reveals it to be.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/businessofstrangers.htm (820 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Business of Strangers
		Director Patrick Stettner's The Business of Strangers (2001) is a small, compact, pointed film that maintains a potent feeling of psychological suspense throughout.
		With intelligence and depth, The Business of Strangers conveys the regrets, egoism, intelligence, and loneliness these women feel, thankfully through the fantastic pairing of Stockard Channing and an almost sociopathic Julia Stiles (who needs to do more work like this).
		The Business of Strangers actually lays out questions it can't necessarily answer, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions as to what makes these women tick.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/businessofstrangers.q.shtml (577 words)

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