The Internship (實習大叔) is an 2013 film. The movie stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. The supporting cast include Rose Byrne, Aasif Mandvi, Josh Brener, Tiya Sircar, Dylan O'Brien, and Tobit Raphael. Will Ferrell makes a cameo and uncredited appearance in the film.
Vince and Owen play a tag team sales troupe for a watch company. When they are about to close on a long standing client, the client tells them that their company has recently shut down. When confronted with little skills outside of selling things, they stumble onto a Google Internship. When they get to Google headquarters, they immediately are alienated due their advance age and lack of computer savvy. However, their positive attitude, outside the box thinking, and dare I say hard work, they start to come around and change not only themselves, but those in their internship.
This movie was so silly. Really, silly. Two sales guys trying to cut it as technical interns. Having been in the internet tech field since the 1990s, the story was a bit far fetched. Although there are no positions on the tech side, the other half of the company is business and it needs lots of sales folks. In reality, sales people don't convert to technical people, they leverage them to close sales. Not that I got that off my chest.
I liked the film. It was a silly coming of age story for both the middle age stars and their post-adolescent interns that they help transfer from socially inept and awkward to confident and ready for the world attitude. A feel good story set in probably one of the best internet tech companies to work for, Google. You'll also see Sergey Brin in a couple of scenes. As some of the things they do are totally on the ball and others are highly imaginary, it hit a cord with me. It's my industry and was familiar ground.
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