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THE INTERNSHIP
July 19, 2014  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

In this 2013 comedy co-written by Vince Vaughn, Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as hard-pressed salesmen who decide to chase a new dream, and a new career, by applying for the highly competitive internship track at Google. It’s like a companion piece to Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley, but featuring Rose Byrne as the female lead. Byrne is an interesting acting chameleon: She can be relentlessly dark, as in her starring role opposite Glenn Close in TV’s Damages, or confidently playful, as with her self-obsessed British pop-star, Jackie Q, in the Russell Brand-Jonah Hill comedy, Get Him to the Greek. Here, she’s on the lighter aside again, and injects some spark into what could have been an utterly thankless girlfriend role.

 
 
 
 
 
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