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89 minutes | Teen | 1999 | 
United States of America
A New York advertising company tries to keep their biggest account from jumping ship and taking their millions of dollars worth of hygiene products with them.
SynopsisA deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo," pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan. The advertising satire follows the New York firm of Cranston & Co. as they fight rival Hoffman & Partners. Cranston (Robert Klein) fires his creative director (Tony Hendra) which puts a young copywriter (Randy Pearlstein) with a literature degree on the front line, even though he doesn't want to be. The contest comes down to a schmaltzy campaign by Hoffman with music by Air Supply that uses the tagline "Vorcan: your own personal air supply." or a more down to earth campaign from Cranston of "The pad ain't bad!" The extremely talented cast includes an early role by Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin).
Director's StatementThe inspiration for the screenplay remains vivid, even though it came about some 25 years ago. I had quit my job as a creative director in an ad agency to write full time. I soon discovered that having to get out of bed for a job was way more motivating than getting up to write. So it’s a Monday morning in May and I’ve got a tennis game with my best friend Howard at 10. We play for an hour, and the people who usually take the court after us don’t show up, so we play for another hour. Now it’s noon, and Howard and I sit around, drinking coffee and talking.
I get in my car for the half hour ride home. As I leave the parking lot of the tennis courts I almost immediately pass a small suburban office building with the word "Numerax" on it. At that exact moment, a young executive in a plaid suit steps out the front door and pauses. I think to myself, "Just another dork in a suit." These are the confident, wildly ambitious alpha males who are wrecking my life.
Ironically, that incident unleashed a torrent of activity on my part. The phrase "dorks in suits" inspired a screenplay of the same name. Over the years, I listened to reason and pared the title down to a simple "Suits."
I directed the movie simply and straight-forwardly. I have never been a fan of the seductive powers of dramatic close ups, mood music, intricate camera moves. To me, either a story is interesting, or it’s not. If it’s interesting, I leave it alone. If it’s not, I don’t want to direct.
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