As Tim Lippe, insurance salesman for the dirty-sounding Brownstar Insurance (located in scenic Brown Valley, sigh), Helms is sent to the big convention in Cedar Rapids after the company's star salesman is found dead of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Having never left his hometown, and having lost both his parents at a young age, we see his first experiences with plane travel, hotels and black people. Forced into a suite with a straight-laced fan of The Wire (Wire alum Isiah Whitlock Jr.) and a party-boy agent in the middle of a divorce (John C. Reilly), he also learns about cutting loose, and after meeting their married gal-pal (Anne Heche), he has his first experience with infidelity. Heap on the pressure of losing his job if he doesn't bring home the convention's major award -- an increasingly impossible task -- and you've got the right recipe to knock this reliable steam engine off his tracks.

In addition to amazing performances by the above cast, you also get a phenomenal supporting cast, including Stephen Root as Tim's ruthless boss, Kurtwood Smith as the head of the convention, Mike O'Malley as a rival salesman, Thomas Lennon as the dead salesman, Alia Shawkat as a hooker, Rob Corddry as a thuggish goon, and Sigourney Weaver as Tim's old middle school teacher-slash-current girlfriend. Helms is the main character, but Reilly is the real star, upstaging his co-stars in every scene he's in, and he's in a lot of them. To put it another way, if this were True Grit, Helms would be the little girl in over her head, and Reilly would be Rooster Cogburn, stone cold drunk and shooting at the bottles.

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