If You're on Unemployment

摘要

With Harrowing Realism, The Company Men captures the raw, personal impact of the economic meltdown. ER creator John Wells knows the value of a little soap opera, so he gives us three executives whose layoffs are like grenades exploding under their comfy middle-class lives. Ben Affleck is the most affecting as the self-assured guy with a family, a mortgage, and a Porsche, soon working construction for the brother-in-law who always mocked his elitism. Chris Cooper is advised by a pessimistic job counselor to leave his proud Vietnam service off his resume because it dates him.