Two Bags Of Peanuts-Awesome Fox Searchlight released the trailer for Cedar Rapids. The film is about a naive insurance agent ( Ed Helms ) who is sent to represent his company at a regional conference when his boss dies in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident. The script, written by Phil Johnston was included on the 2009 Blacklist, a Hollywood list of the most popular unproduced screenplays of the year. The film Stars Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock Jr.,Kurtwood Smith, Stephen Root,Sigourney Weaver and Alia Shawkat. Watch the trailer after the Jump.. 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 ...