In the Company of Men

Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) are assigned to a different location within their company for six weeks. Chad is a classic asshole (at one point he has a male intern drop his pants to see if he has the 'balls' for this job) and Howard wants to pretend to be a douchebag of similar size so they agree to wine and dine a girl simultaneously and then breaking up with her at the same time - all within those six weeks.

The girl Chad (of course it's Chad) picks is Christine (Stacy Edwards), who is deaf (added bonus!). They take her out and send her flowers. Howard is not as good at this as Chad and actually falls in love. Christine falls for the charm of Chad.

When Chad and Christine go to lunch in week four, with him being all sweet and charming (you want to punch him in the face for playing that lovely girl like that) they run into Howard and Christine realizes for the first time that the two know each other.

When Howard confesses his love, Christine tearfully breaks up with him and apologizes for not having been honest from the start. This prompts Howard to spill the beans of what they were doing, which leads to a fight ("You, you are fucking handicapped! You think you can chose?"). A few days later, Christine confronts Chad, who goes back to asshole mode, saying that he wanted to let her down easy, but "fuck it".

In the last chapter of the film, we realize just how big an asshole Chad actually is.

from Roger Ebert's review:
We find a level beneath the other levels. The game was more Machiavellian than we imagined. We thought we were witnessing evil, but now we look on its true face.

8/10