A movie like In Good Company can be rather difficult to watch, yet it is almost essential for the American public to do so.

For the first time in a while, here is a movie that doesn't seem to hide any truths.

I know this all seems a bit confusing right now, but trust me, it will make sense in the end.

In Good Company tells the story of Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) and Carter Duryea (Topher Grace). To say that Quaid should get top billing in this movie would be wrong, as it would for Grace. Both men are the main characters and both deserve equal credit for carrying In Good Company.

Near the beginning of the film we learn that Dan is an aging family man and that Carter is a 26-year-old corporate hotshot. So how do these two connect? Well, it just so happens that Dan has a high ranking advertising sales position for a New York-based magazine; so does Carter. As a matter of fact, the much younger Carter has just taken over Dan's job on the heels of a well-publicized corporate takeover of the magazine.

This is where the movie's ultimate theme begins to take place: the downsizing of the "dinosaurs" and the uprising of young, Starbucks-chugging executives like Carter. We've seen movies like this before, where the old is pushed out in favor of the new, yet this one has the subtleties necessary for freshness.

To start, Carter doesn't immediately fire Dan like everyone would expect. Instead, he keeps him around, realizing that he knows nothing about advertising and Dan knows everything. An even rarer occurrence happens when the two -- although it isn't plainly stated -- become friends. All of this isn't Dan's choice of course. The magical thing about Quaid's performance is that so much goes unstated -- just look in his eyes and you'll know what I mean. Dan can't help that Carter has nothing but his career and forces himself over for an awkward dinner with the Foreman family. He can't help it when his daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson) feels vulnerable to Carter's charms. And he can't help it that he may be losing more than a large chunk of his salary throughout this entire ordeal. When Quaid finally does let Dan loose -- at a meeting with the billionaire corporate honcho himself, no less -- it is a moment where we all can take a big sigh and say, "We get it now." Carter is not without his own big revelation moment in the film, and while it feels as though we've heard the same moral stated in countless movie after movie, hearing Grace say it so plainly makes this movie a distinctive one. I can't say enough about the casting in this film. Everyone seems to have a deep understanding of who their characters are and where they're going. This says a lot for Grace. Up until this point he was merely a television actor, but with In Good Company he can join Quaid and Johansson in the Hollywood elite.

In a fitting metaphor, it seems a very real possibility that this young Carter will someday find his inner Dan. We should all be so lucky.