The Company was made late in the career of Robert Altman. The film was a passion project for the actor Neve Campbell since she has a producer and story credit on the film.
Altman was apparently reluctant to take on the film but it has a lot of his qualities. The film follows a dance company for about a year in Chicago. It is virtually a plot less film. Although Neve Campbell and James Franco are in the main credits, if there is a main character at all its Malcolm McDowell playing "Mr. A," the director of the dance group. McDowell is the complete opposite of the Lermontov character from The Red Shoes. Although focused, he's not going to drive has principal ballerina into suicide.
In fact the Neve Campbell character "Ry" is almost the complete opposite of Victoria Page the ballerina from the The Red Shoes. She works as a cocktail waitress and actually gets hurt dancing.
This is an interesting, movie but it's lack of a story probably hurt any chance of commercial success. I would still rate this as a very good late career film from Robert Altman.
Barbara Turner and Neve Campbell get story credit, the screenplay was written by Turner.
112 minutes.
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