Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids (2011)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (154 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (22,484 ratings)

To call insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), "naïve" is a gross understatement. He's never left his small hometown. He's never stayed at a hotel. And he's never experienced anything like Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sent to represent his company at the annual insurance convention, Tim is soon distracted by… More

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R, 1 hr. 27 min.
Directed By
Miguel Arteta
Written By
Phil Johnston
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Feb 11, 2011 Limited
On DVD
Jun 21, 2011
Fox Searchlight Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Anthony Lane, New Yorker

    These folk are undistinguished yet distinctive, and the film, for all the familiar grind of its plotting, pays them their honest due.

  • Tom Long, Detroit News

    Considering it has to do with infidelity, bribery, drugs, drinking, loutish behavior, fraud and prostitution, Cedar Rapids is really kind of a sweet movie.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    Cedar Rapids takes an inordinate number of wrong turns, but it also has an inordinate number of good laughs mixed in with the not-so-good ones.

  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

    Helms delivers a performance of touching delicacy, one almost as remarkable as that of Tom Hanks in Big.

  • Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

    Like a slightly twisted, modern-day Frank Capra fable...

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • paul s


    In Cedar Rapids you have a comedy that is really more satiric yet with a heart. Director Miguel Arteta manages to present a great deal more than the typical rube out of his element comedy that this appears to be on the surface. Somehow, just when the film seems teetering into rote… More

  • Spencer S


    A brainy comedy about an insurance salesman on the ride of his life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for a conference; vying for a major award and finding unexpected fun and friendships along the way. It's an awkward outsider meets quirky companions meets coming of age story, starring the… More

  • Nathan H


    What happens in the rapids, stays in the rapids. This film follows a naive insurance agent as he goes to competition, and becomes a little more street smart. Despite its overly worldly themes, cedar rapids manages to be sweet natured thanks to performances by John c Reilly and Ed… More

  • Coxxie M


    i was mildly interested until i saw the joke in the trailer where the two guys are talking and one has his shirt off and the other guy touches his boobs and you just KNOW someone is gonna walk in and--- "Im not even gonna ask!" HAHAHAHAH LOL! LOL!

  • Sam B


    Cedar Rapids makes this much clear: Any premise, no matter how generic it seems, can become a great movie if the characters involved are interesting and true enough, and the script moves along with purpose. Cedar Rapids succeeds in taking a boring field (insurance) and making a comedy… More

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