Director Miguel Arteta charmed the pants off an already fawning crowd following the Sundance screening of “Cedar Rapids,” his new comedy starring Ed Helms as a hopeless poindexter who gets caught in ...

And then? Then, there’s “Cedar Rapids,” Helms’ first film as a lead. Opening this month in Sioux City, it finds Helms as small-town insurance salesman sent to “the big city” for a convention. Produced ...

You can feel the fish-out-of-water tale “Cedar Rapids” stretching for quirkiness, but it never stretches quite far enough. Still, it’s an amusing, charming, harmless flick, driven by a spot-on, ...

Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secondario Ed Helms (The Office‘s obnoxious ...

Cedar Rapids An insurance agent (Ed Helms) travels to Cedar Rapids for a convention, only to wind up wasted and laid (with John C. Reilly and Anne Heche, respectively). Yes, insurance conventions are ...