John Wells
'The Company Men': A sensitive portrait of an Affleck-looking jerk with a Porsche
It’s hard to feel sorry for the laid-off executives in The Company Men (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris Cooper). They have existed in a bubble of privilege and status for years, working at GTX, a giant multinational company that started as a humble shipbuilding business and is now a many-tentacled behemoth. With the economic crash of 2008 all three get laid off, one after the other, and they suddenly realize what most people have known for a while now: it’s really tough out there. More
