About Schmidt (2002):
Watch Jack Nicholson play Warren Schmidt, a retired insurance agent who has led
a safe, predictable life—until he buys an RV and takes a risk-ridden ride to
attend his daughter’s wedding. IMDB Rating: 7.2
Death of a Salesman
(1985): Starring a young Dustin Hoffman and a very young John Malkovich.
Based on the Arthur Miller classic about a traveling insurance salesman, Willy
Lowman, going through a mental degeneration. A number of disappointments lead
to a tragic car accident and left insurance money for his son Biff’s
misconstrued business. IMDB Rating: 7.3
The Truman Show
(1998): Jim Carey stars as an insurance salesman/adjuster who discovers
that his entire life is actually a TV show. IMDB Rating: 8.0
Cedar Rapids (2011):
A small-town Iowa insurance agent, Tim Lippe, is dispatched to a regional
insurance conference in ‘hicksville’ Cedar Rapids. His mission: Bring home the
much-coveted Two Diamond award. It’s a regaling story about corruption and the
pursuit of virtue. IMDB Rating: 6.3
Sicko (2007):
Documentarian and libertarian political pundit, Michael Moore’s documentary on
the ills of US health insurance, and those sufferers under its penurious
policies. Makes one thank God for Canadian healthcare. IMDB Rating: 6.3
The Rainmaker (1997):
Starring Danny DeVito, Matt Damon, and Claire Danes. The film is about an
idealistic lawyer and his cynical partner who take on a powerful law firm
representing a corrupt insurance company. IMDB Rating: 7.0
The Incredibles
(2004): Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible) plays an insurance agent before
losing his job for assaulting his boss at the fictional Insuricare. His firing
is the catalyst for his transformation as a superhero. IMDB Rating 8.0
Owning Mahowny (2003):
Starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Minnie Driver, it is a film not
about the insurance industry per se, but about risk. Hoffman’s character, a
bank manager, has both a gambling addiction and access to a multimillion dollar
account that he uses to fuel a series of regaling and clandestine gambling
episodes. It’s based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian
history. IMDB Rating: 7.1
A Little Trip to
Heaven (2005): Starring Forest Whitaker and Julia Stiles, this film is
wrapped around a husband and wife’s tangle with an investigator over her dead
brother’s million-dollar insurance policy. Fact or fraud? IMDB Rating: 6.1
Along Came Polly
(2004): A hilarious romantic comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer
Aniston (along with brilliant performances by Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour
Hoffman). Stiller plays a risk-assessor for an insurance company, who, in
attempting to live a risk-free life winds up with Aniston whose life is
anything but predictable. IMDB Rating: 5.9
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