Description: The Company Men is 2010 American drama film, written and directed by John Wells. It features Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones.It premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2010 and had a one-week run in December 10, 2010 to be eligible for the year's Academy Awards. The movie was released commercially in the United States and Canada on January 21, 2011.PlotWhen the publicly held shipbuilding corporation Global Transportation Systems, or GTX, is downsized in the midst of the recession, many employees are fired, including Bobby Walker. Walker is a white-collar, corporate ladder-climbing employee with a six-figure salary, a wife, and a teenage son and younger daughter.Walker gets outplacement services from GTX but, without success, gradually loses luxuries such as his country club membership and his Porsche. He finally resorts to selling his expensive house (with a large mortgage) and moves his family in with his parents. Ultimately, Walker is forced to take a manual labor job working for his blue-collar brother-in-law, Jack Dolan, renovating a home.Executive Vice President Gene McClary challenges GTX CEO James Salinger and his strategy of employee cutbacks, questioning the ethics of spending money to build new corporate headquarters while laying off employees. Angry at being questioned by McClary, his longtime friend, college roommate, and first employee, Salinger asserts that the deep cuts are necessary to increase profits, to increase the stock price and discourage a rumored hostile takeover of the company.Later, it is determined that an additional round of lay-offs is necessary. Senior manager Phil Woodward, who, over the course of 30 years, had risen from the factory floor to the corporate offices (a decidedly rare accomplishment), is also fired. When McClary demands that senior HR manager Sally Wilcox, who is also his mistress, rehire Woodward immediately, she tells him that he, too, is being fired. He soon leaves his wife and moves in with Sally.Woodward's life quickly falls apart as employer after employer tells him he is either too old to start a new career, or too old to do jobs that those half his age find difficult. At his wife's request, Woodward goes out every morning as usual with his briefcase to keep his situation secret from the neighbors, but he cannot do anything to abate his mounting bills or his daughter's impending college tuition bill. Frustrated and depressed, he commits suicide in his garage by carbon-monoxide poisoning.Despite McClary's anger, he has become even wealthier as a shareholder of the firm because the value of his GTX stock options has increased due to the company's downsizing. Yet he feels guilty about his company ruining so many lives and wants to put people to work. Feeling the need for a change, he starts his own business in maritime shipbuilding, the previous specialty of GTX. Walker is the first person he hires.Walker arrives at the bare offices to help start a new business composed of many former GTX employees.CastBen Affleck as Bobby WalkerTommy Lee Jones as Gene McClaryChris Cooper as Phil WoodwardKevin Costner as Jack DolanRosemarie DeWitt as Maggie WalkerMaria Bello as Sally WilcoxCraig T. Nelson as James SalingerEamonn Walker as DannyNancy Villone as Diane LindstromTom Kemp as Conal DohertyDana Eskelson as Diedre DolanPatricia Kalember as Cynthia McClaryCady Huffman as JoannaAnthony O'Leary as Drew WalkerAngela Rezza as Carson WalkerKent Shocknek as Herb RittenourTonye Patano as Joyce RobertsonKathy Harum as KarenLance Greene as Dick LandryMaryann Plunkett as Lorna
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Features: Academy Screener "For Your Consideration" appears briefly as subt
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Format: DVD
Run Time: 114 minutes
Music Artist: Aaron Zigman
Producer: John Wells, Paula Weinstein, Claire Rudnick Polstein
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Unit Type: Unit
Season: n/a
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Video Format: NTSC
Edition: Promo
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Case Type: Cardboard Sleeve
Director: John Wells
Language: English
Cinematic Movement: Drama
Actor: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt, Craig T. Nelson
Studio: The Weinstein Company, Battle Mountain Films, Spring Creek
Franchise: n/a
Release Year: 2010
Unit Quantity: 1
Movie/TV Title: Company Men
Genre: Drama
Sub-Genre: Drama
Type: Movie