Synopsis
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
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Cast
- Ed HelmsTim Lippe
- John C. ReillyDean Ziegler
- Anne HecheJoan Ostrowski-Fox
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.Ronald Wilkes
- Stephen RootBill Krogstad
- Kurtwood SmithOrin Helgesson
- Alia ShawkatBree
- Thomas LennonRoger Lemke
- Rob CorddryGary
- Mike O'MalleyMike Pyle
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Sweetness makes the raunch in this honestly funny movie even funnier. - 83
IndieWire
Helms plays angelic insurance agent Tim Lippe with gentle nobility and hilarious naivete. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Cedar Rapids has something of the same spirit of "Fargo" in its approach to the earnest natures of its small-towners. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It helps that Reilly is the opposite of a slob-comic. With his hangdog melancholy, he makes even the nonstop cunnilingus allusions poignant-the product of emotional longing. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's not exactly "The Hangover," but the dialogue and situations often get distinctly gamey. - 70
Variety
Though not as uproarious as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," director Miguel Arteta's consistently entertaining white-collar laffer could do for Helms what that film did for Steve Carell. - 60
Time Out
The movie just ping-pongs between empathetic chuckles at Helms's charming social awkwardness and putting him through a raunchfest ringer. - 60
Chicago Reader
Helms's screen persona-the stiff-necked nerd who triumphs through sheer doggedness-is heavily reminiscent of Harold Lloyd's, though Lloyd was handsome and endearing enough to succeed as a romantic lead.
