SnoopyStyle Mike (Steve Zahn) works at his parents' (Margo Martindale, Fred Ward) roadside motel. Sue (Jennifer Aniston) sells art for office buildings. She's passing through for the night. He's a lonely loser who falls for the cold lonely woman. He tries his best to connect. She's also strange in her own way. Just maybe they're perfect for each other.It's a very predictable low budget indie. Nobody is really stretching their acting skills. Steve Zahn does this lovable loser character often while Aniston plays the same cold superior woman with a heart if only she's willing to open up. Writer/director Stephen Belber has created some quirky moments, but none of them are truly gut busters. It does take a wild left turn later on with Woody Harrelson. It's not any funnier although James Hiroyuki Liao is a fun sidekick.

dylan-oldekeizer I love most of Jen's movies. With a few misfits like ''Friends with Money'' and ''Derailed''. I wanted for this movie not to fall in that category but it did. As a huge Jennifer Aniston fan I think all her performances are amazing, she keeps acting good and steels always the spotlight. To begin with the movie was hard to get sucked into. The first 25 minuets was a whole different ( boring ) movie then the rest. Steve Zahn acts like hes mentally unstable and Jennifer Aniston is just a straight ass bitch. Speaking of Ass, shes a women with no self-respect and lets a man she doesn't know and shows up at her door for a few times touch her ass, FOR SEVERAL SECONDS! Then she points at the door. She gets in a car and gets out again to have sex, oke make up your mind! Then she rans off again to go to her home town which means Zahn is left behind. Thats when the movie gets a bit better. Zahn travels across country to see her, over and over again. Until Jennifer gets knocked up and marries a ex- drug abuser ( WHUT? ) Zahn is turning his life up-side down after visiting a Monk and turns the motel into a home-less centre, he shows up at Jens door again and BAM she is divorced from the ex-drug and everything is oke. Al toghter, it was pretty lame but again you feel sorry for Zahn and you really get how he feels. I didn't know what to rate this movie, it was weird, fun, good, bad, sucky, lame, sad and fun actually...So I gave it a 6(sorry for my grammar, I'm dutch )

jotix100 Mike, the night manager of his parent's Arizona motel, is a loner; he has no life. When we meet him he is living in one of the upstairs room of the complex. Mike suddenly awakens to show emotion, when Sue Classens, a sales rep for motel art work, stops at the inn. She is seen to Mike as a pleasant distraction. The first night he knocks on her door to offer a complimentary bottle of wine, something that puzzles Sue. What does he really want, she wonders. On her second night, he offers her a bottle of champagne. If Sue had doubts about the intentions of this man, she counteracts with her own proposal: Would he like to touch her butt? It is an offer no man could refuse.Sue, in turn, finds herself in a quandary. She is based in Baltimore. She is probably a girl with low self esteem who finds it is safe having sex with Mike on the day she was departing, but little did she think of the consequences of her actions. Mike is smitten. He has to go see her, and if possible stay with her. Sue is not exactly happy to see Mike come back into her life, so she sends him packing back to Arizona. Mike does not give up. When he finds out she has moved to Washington state, he makes it his priority. Unfortunately, Sue has gone back to her ex-punk boyfriend, now a businessman with a yogurt business. Will Mike impress Sue? This is an indie film that came as a surprise when it turned up on a cable channel. Not having seen it, we decided to take a look. Directed and written by Stephen Belber, the film has a combination of styles, but it pays off because it does not pretends to be anything but a small film. The success of "Management" depended heavily on its star, Jennifer Aniston, an underrated actress whose choices always tend to be big studio features which only requires her to be pretty. As she clearly showed in "The Good Girl", it pays to have a good director behind her whom she trusts totally. This is not exactly what one would expect to be one of her first choices, but playing it subtly, Ms. Aniston's work seems to be the best excuse to watch "Management".A tamed Steve Zahn plays Mike with a new perspective, something that pays off for him. The combination of this actor and Ms. Aniston pays in sweet ways. Woody Harrelson does another of his specialties with his Jango, although he is seen briefly. The wonderful Margo Martindale, appears as Mike's mother, but her screen time is only limited. The same goes for Fred Ward, the enigmatic father. Director Stephen Belber does a fine job in his film debut.

tieman64 "Management" is a cute indie film revolving around a budding romance forged between an uptight city worker (Jennifer Aniston) and a small town hotel handyman (Steve Zahn). She's your standard office-junkie, putting too much time into "helping other people" and "failing to put her needs first", whilst he's an immature man-kid who still lives with his parents.The film's twin character arcs involve Zahn "growing up and taking on responsibilities" and Aniston "letting go of responsibilities" and "taking care of herself". It's a nice bit of mirroring, but profundity is sidestepped in favour for our duo magically solving their problems by starting a soup kitchen for homeless people.As usual, there's a love triangle and a second man whom the film has to demonize in order to make Zahn more appealing, as well as a familiar "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" three act structure. But the film's overriding message – that people take on activities to escape themselves – is interesting in an existential way. 7.5/10 – This little cinematic fantasy serves as therapy for a certain type of person. It's cute, but nevertheless possesses a very creepy underside. Zahn's character, for example, is practically a stalker, and Aniston is far too quick to drop her skirt and offer conciliatory sex. Only a guy would write this stuff.Worth one viewing.