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Joel Reynolds (Bateman) is sitting pretty. With a beautiful wife, a comfortable home, and the almost-finalized acquisition by General Mills of the culinary extracts business he has built with his loyal lieutenant Brian (Simmons), Joel seems to have it all. Except his wife is about as interested in him as she is in her career (supermarket coupon design), his employees want a piece of the pie, and the sweet young thing with designs on him (Kunis) is really a wily con-artist. On the advice of a drug-addled confidante (Affleck), Joel cooks up a scheme to cheat with impunity by hiring a gigolo to seduce his wife—only to discover the young object of his affection is behind a lawsuit by long-time employee Step (Collins, Jr.) that will scotch the General Mills deal and leave Joel penniless. The best-laid plans unravel with hilarious results in this off-the-wall comedy about life in the not-so-fast lane. (Tricia Spears)