CEDAR RAPIDS Trailer. With THE WIRE Joke

Fox Searchlight pictures unleashed the trailer plus the poster, via Apple, for CEDAR RAPIDS and me being a hardcore fan of HBO’s The Wire, the joke near the very end to be the funniest because the line was said by none other than actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. who played Senator Clay Davis on the show, so it’s more of an inside joke than anything… but the rest, well, imagine Ed Helms partying up from The Hangover but times 10…

To call insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), “naive” 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 three convention veterans (John C. Reilly, Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr.) who will show him the ropes and push his boundaries. For a guy who plays everything by the book, this convention will be anything but conventional.

CEDAR RAPIDS opens February 11th, 2011