Pete Cozy once had high hopes for a lucrative and fulfilling professional life. Dartmouth educated in business, he worked as an executive at a small, independent record label, at which he made no money but enjoyed his work.
Now at age thirty-nine with a stay at home wife/mother, Sara, and a three year old son, Henry, he has long worked in the marketing section of Wolsky Supermarkets – a subsidiary of ACS – based on Long Island. He has been sucked into the office culture of mediocrity, doing as little as possible to keep the company afloat, which it barely is, and earn a paycheck – any paycheck – with no desire to move up the corporate ladder with its associated headaches. He hates his job but inertia and a mountain of debt is keeping him there.
Things change when he gets a new boss. She is Susan Felders, a high energy, ambitious woman, who nonetheless has a somewhat childlike approach to life. Her goal is to turn around Wolsky’s sagging fortunes. In her whirlwind, she brings along Pete, who eventually succumbs to this change in his professional life which includes a major bump in salary, and by association Sara, who begins her own friendship with Susan and who sees their own home life improving in being able to afford the little and not so little luxuries in life. Pete will have to decide how far he will go along with Susan, especially after he sees directly how she operates, both in her personal and professional life.
Price Check is a 2012 comedy film about the high price of a middle-class life. The film was written and directed by Michael Walker, and Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Annie Parisse, Finn Donoghue, Victor Cruz, Amy Schumer, Brian Berrebbi, Xosha Roquemore, Mylinda Hull, Marceline Hugot and Remy Auberjonois.
Price Check (2012)
Directed by: Michael Walker
Starring: Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Annie Parisse, Finn Donoghue, Victor Cruz, Amy Schumer, Brian Berrebbi, Xosha Roquemore, Mylinda Hull, Marceline Hugot, Remy Auberjonois
Screenplay by: Michael Walker
Production Design by: Nadya Gurevich
Cinematography by: Sam Chase
Film Editing by: Jennifer Lame, Michael Taylor
Costume Design by: Astrid Brucker
Art Direction by: Lee Clayton, Lauren Fitzsimmons
Music by: Britta Phillips, Dean Wareham
Distributed by: IFC Films
Release Date: January 25, 2012
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