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The Internship
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Shawn Levy
Produced by
Vince Vaughn
Shawn Levy
Screenplay by
Vince Vaughn
Jared Stern
Story by
Vince Vaughn
Starring
Vince Vaughn
Owen Wilson
Rose Byrne
Max Minghella
Aasif Mandvi
Josh Brener
Dylan O'Brien
Tobit Raphael
Tiya Sircar
Jessica Szohr
Music by
Christophe Beck
Cinematography
Jonathan Brown
Edited by
Dean Zimmerman
Production
company
Regency Enterprises
21 Laps Entertainment
Wild West Picture Show Productions
TSG Entertainment
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
June 7, 2013 (2013-06-07)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$58 million[2]
Box office
$93.5 million[3]
The Internship is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, and produced by Vaughn and Levy. The film stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as recently-laid-off salesmen who attempt to compete with much younger and more technically-skilled applicants for a job at Google. The Internship is the second film with Vaughn and Wilson in the lead roles, after the 2005 film Wedding Crashers; the two had also both appeared in the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch. This is also the second collaboration of Levy, Vaughn, and Stern after the 2012 film The Watch, and the third of Levy and Wilson after the first two Night at the Museum films.
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Home media
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
Salesmen Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell's (Owen Wilson) employer goes out of business, and Billy applies for Google internships on their behalf. They are accepted due to their unorthodox interview answers, despite a lack of relevant experience. They are the only interns not of traditional collegiate age. They will spend the summer competing in teams against other interns in a variety of tasks, and only the members of the winning team will be guaranteed jobs with Google. Billy and Nick are teamed with other interns seen as rejects: Stuart, who is usually engrossed in his smart phone; Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American who was homeschooled by a stereotypically overbearing Asian mother; and Neha, an Indian-American who is an enthusiast of nerd-related kink. The team is led by Lyle, who constantly tries to act hip in order to hide his insecurities. Another intern, Graham, bullies Billy and Nick's team. Mr. Chetty, the head of the internship program, also expresses his doubts about the older men's abilities. Stuart, Yo-Yo, and Neha see Billy and Nick as useless during a task focused on debugging and send them on a wild-goose chase for Charles Xavier at Stanford University (only to be brutally beaten when they find someone matching the description). But later, during a game of Quidditch against Graham's team, Billy rallies his team to a comeback that unifies them as a team, despite ultimately losing after Graham cheats.
When the teams are tasked with developing an app, Billy and Nick convince the team to indulge in a wild night out. At a strip club, Neha admits to Billy that, despite her rich fantasy life, she has no real world experience and is nervous. With his support, she decides to stay. Nick gets Yo-Yo to break out of his shell by drinking and receiving lap dances. Encouraged by Billy, Lyle approaches one of the dancers, Marielena, who is also a dance instructor at Google on whom he had developed a crush. She is charmed by him, but another customer challenges Lyle for her attention and they fight, getting the team kicked out. Before sunrise, Stuart learns to appreciate his surroundings while overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, and Lyle's drunken antics inspire the team to create an app that guards against reckless phone usage while drunk. They win the task by earning the most downloads.
Meanwhile, Nick has been flirting with an executive, Dana, with little success. When he begins attending technical presentations to impress her, he develops an interest in the material. While the teams prepare to staff the technical support hotline, only Billy feels at a loss. A Google employee, "Headphones," who always wears headphones and never socializes, approaches Billy and tells him that the way he interacts with people is special. He tutors Billy on the technical information. Dana agrees to go on a date with Nick, and she invites him in at the end of the evening. During the task, Billy is comfortable with the material, but his team receives no score because he failed to properly log his calls for review. Dejected, Billy leaves Google to pursue a new sales opportunity with his former boss. The final task is announced as a sales challenge. Teams must sign the largest possible company to begin advertising with Google. The team is stunned when Nick tells them that Billy has left, and they declare that they do not want to do the task without him. Nick convinces Billy to return, and Billy leads the team to show a local pizzeria owner how Google can help him interact with potential customers and thereby expand his business, while remaining true to his professional values.
Chetty is about to announce that Graham's team have won, when Billy, Nick, and their team arrive to give a dynamic presentation about their new client. Chetty recognizes that although the pizzeria is not a large business, its potential is limitless because it is expanding via technology. Graham protests and is dressed down by Headphones, who turns out to be the head of Google Search. Nick and Billy's team win the challenge and the guaranteed jobs. Graham berates his team, who finally reject him. As the students depart, Nick and Dana are still seeing each other, as are Lyle and Marielena. Stuart and Neha have formed a romantic connection as well with Stuart promising to see her in person rather than texting her, and Yo-Yo asserts himself to his mother. Billy and Nick toast their success.
Cast[edit]
Vince Vaughn as William "Billy" McMahon
Owen Wilson as Nicholas "Nick" Campbell
Josh Brener as Lyle Spaulding
Dylan O'Brien as Stuart Twombly
Tiya Sircar as Neha Patel
Tobit Raphael as Yo-Yo Santos
Rose Byrne as Dana Simms
Max Minghella as Graham Hawtrey
Aasif Mandvi as Mr. Roger Chetty
Josh Gad as Andrew "Headphones" Anderson
Eric André as Sid
John Goodman (uncredited) as Sammy Boscoe
Jessica Szohr as Marielena Gutierrez
Bruno Amato as Sal
B. J. Novak as Male interviewer
Rob Riggle as Randy
Joanna García as Megan[4]
Will Ferrell (uncredited) as Kevin
Sergey Brin (cameo) as himself
Production[edit]
Most of the scenes were filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which posed as a double for Googleplex. Vaughn came up with the idea after watching a 60 Minutes segment on Google's work culture, and subsequently brought the idea to director Shawn Levy. [5] Google agreed to work with the film producers, with founder Larry Page noting that "computer science has a marketing problem." [6] Google also felt it would help further explain their "Do no evil" mantra.[6] Although Reuters noted that as part of the deal Google asked for "Creative control", Levy denied the company was involved with the script, insisting that Google only assisted from a "technical" perspective. [5] CNN noted that the studio did give "some control" to Google over the depiction of its products. [6]
Reception[edit]
The Internship received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 35% based on 162 reviews with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Internship weighs down Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's comic charisma with a formulaic script and padded running time that leans far too heavily on its stars' easygoing interplay."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[8] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[9]
A majority of the reviewers have derided it for being a feature-length Google commercial. In his review, Ty Burr of The Boston Globe commented: "Here’s why Google is so successful: It's figured out a way for Twentieth Century Fox to make a two-hour Google commercial disguised as a summer comedy".[10] Stephen Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote on his review, "The Internship itself would be kind of charming, too, if this Google-recruitment film, this 119-minute commercial for Googliness, weren't so downright creepy".[11] The Guardian's David Cox described the movie as a "two-hour corporate video,"[12] while British film critic Mark Kermode called the film "the longest advert I've seen in the cinema". He dismissed it as "one of the most witless, humourless, vomit-inducing horribly self-satisfied, smug, unfunny comedies I have ever seen".[13]
Another critique was that combining Vaughn and Wilson with Google was poorly timed, and that the film would have been much more successful, had it been released on the heels of Vaughn and Wilson's success in 2005's Wedding Crashers. This fact of timing was satirized by a video news story run by The Onion, a satirical newspaper, titled "The Internship Poised to be Biggest Comedy of 2005".[14]
Many former Google interns and Google employees noted the accuracy of the company environment depicted in the movie, but also pointed out that the internship process is nothing like that shown in the movie.[15]
Home media[edit]
The Internship was released in "Unrated" form on DVD and Blu-ray Combo Pack on October 22, 2013.[16] This edition runs 125 minutes and contains profanity and nudity not found in the theatrical release.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "THE INTERNSHIP (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. May 10, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
Jump up ^ "The Internship". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Internship". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
Jump up ^ "JoAnna Garcia Swisher in Shawn Levy's Internship". June 27, 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b Ronald, Grover; ALEXI, ORESKOVIC. "Google goes Hollywood with 'The Internship'". Reuters. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
^ Jump up to: a b c Kelly, Heather. "Why Google loves 'The Internship'". CNN. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Internship". Rotten Tomatoes by Flixster. Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
Jump up ^ "The Internship". Metacritic/CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
Jump up ^ "CinemaScore". cinemascore.com.
Jump up ^ Burr, Ty (2013-06-05). "Vaughn and Wilson Are Silicon Valley Crashers". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
Jump up ^ Rea, Stephen (2013-06-07). "Buddy Film Wrapped in a Google Ad". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2013-08-19.
Jump up ^ Cox, David (1 July 2013). "The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid". The Guardian (UK). Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
Jump up ^ "Mark Kermode reviews The Internship" on YouTube, The Guardian (UK), 1 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "'The Internship' Poised To Be Biggest Comedy Of 2005", The Onion, 6 June 2013.
Jump up ^ Anthony, Brian (2013-06-09). "Real Google Interns: 'The Internship' Movie Kind of Nails It". Mashable.com. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
Jump up ^ Davis, Clayton (2013-08-21). ""The Internship" Comes Home on the Hilarious Unrated Edition Blu-ray October 22!". Awards Circuit. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
External links[edit]
Film in the United States portal
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Google portal
Official website
The Internship on IMDb
The Internship at Box Office Mojo
The Internship at Rotten Tomatoes
The Internship at Metacritic
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