Outsourced (2006)

[A Boy Named Seo]

Watched this one yesterday and liked it. An American company is oustourcing one of its phone sales departments to India. One of the guys getting squeezed out goes there to get the new place up and running. At my current job, I deal directly with the IT departments for two very large call centers in Bangalore, so this one was maybe a little cooler for me.

It's kind of like that Tom Selleck movie "Mr. Baseball", where the stubborn American goes to a foreign country, is unaccepting of their culture and customs at first, and then finally embraces it.

Except it's good.

[Guest AG/DC]

Big shot Americans go overseas and try to big league locals, before coming to appreciate their culture as perhaps under-rated:

Outsourced
Mr. Baseball
The Last Samurai
The Air Up There
The Matchmaker
Local Hero
The Coca-Cola Kid
Rocky IV

[Guest AG/DC]

Yeah, we dug this OK. JG doesn't steer a brother wrong. It would have worked as a bigger movie. Thankfully, I guess, it wasn't, though the lead guy (great name, "Josh Hamilton") was no big whoop. No real depiction of the enormity of Indian poverty either.

It should have been called "Holiday in Goa." It doesn't really have much to say about outsourcing.