The Company Men

his movie explores what happens when those of us who have it made no longer do. Ben Affleck plays a regional sales manager for a ship building company who has it all. The great house, the Porsche, the country club and then one day----he is let go after a wave of corporate down sizing.

Chris Cooper plays an older employee let go who finds himself practically unemployable at his age and is being crowded by expenses that never stop.

Tommy Lee Jones and Craig T Nelson play the CEO ( Nelson ) and his first employee when the company was starting out. ( Jones )

Tiring of Jones contunual fighting him on the job cuts Jones himself gets his walking papers. Jones remembering his own blue collar roots is upset by what is happening to the good employees who worked for the company.

This is a good movie. It moved a little slow and the subject matter of men losing their jobs hits a little home for me. While Affleck's character loses his job and then his house eventually working for his brother in law buidling houses. This character of the brother in law played by Kevin Costner has an honest decency that is perhaps the most accessible and least flawed character in the movie.

A good movie. Perhaps a lesson on what is important and what is not. A wonderful cast. Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor and Craig T Nelson is always underappreciated.