Business of Strangers is sold as a film about corporate manipulation. It deals with Stockard Channing (giving another wooden performance) as a business executive on an out-of-town meeting who learns while there that she has been promoted. She also fires her newly hired assistant Julia Stiles for coming late for an important business meeting. Nick Harris is the head-hunter who works for her company, who is also in town for a corporate meeting.
Business of Strangers revolves around these three characters and the time they spend together at the hotel-airport when they miss their flight. There are subtle lesbian overtones at the start of the movie. Stiles is undoubtedly the villain of the piece - the poor, ambitious girl struggling to be a writer. Nick Harris and Channing are the ones cast in a more sympathetic light despite the fact that their professions should not draw any sympathy.
There was nothing striking about the plot or the dialogue. Julia Stiles is a good actress and someone to watch out for - if she can get out of the Ludlum action movie cycle.
Business of Strangers revolves around these three characters and the time they spend together at the hotel-airport when they miss their flight. There are subtle lesbian overtones at the start of the movie. Stiles is undoubtedly the villain of the piece - the poor, ambitious girl struggling to be a writer. Nick Harris and Channing are the ones cast in a more sympathetic light despite the fact that their professions should not draw any sympathy.
There was nothing striking about the plot or the dialogue. Julia Stiles is a good actress and someone to watch out for - if she can get out of the Ludlum action movie cycle.