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There’s nothing like working at a New York ad agency to help you round out the backbiting characters in your screenplay.

From 1996-98, Patrick Stettner made the rounds of Manhattan’s temp circuit as he toiled away on the script for his first feature film, The Business of Strangers. The movie, a study in psychological warfare, opened in New York and Los Angeles last week. It stars Stockard Channing as a newly minted CEO who battles the sadistic wits of a company teenie-weenie, played by Julia Stiles, while the two are stranded in a hotel during a business trip.

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