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The Company Men

★★

Creator: John Wells
Year: 2010

So this film had a lot of potential because of the reality of the economic crisis. The plot being, there’s a series of layoffs and the film follows a couple of those individuals and how they cope. But the problem I had with this is, they’re all white collar individuals who made good money, so there’s absolutely no sympathy for these people.

Ben Affleck plays a cocky asshole who drives a Porsche. Yeah, that kinda guy. And we’re suppose to sympathize for this guy because he lost his job even though he still seems to have a perfect family, etc.  Just not likable at all.

The only upside was Tommy Lee Jones‘ performance. He played the beaten down boss really well.

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