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“Company Men” offers grim reality in recession
“The Company Men” looks at corporate downsizing squarely in the face — that is, the faces of startled men, some still relatively young but others much older whose whole self-image crumbles in a matter of moments. American movies rarely catch the American male so nakedly powerless and shattered.
Writer-director John Wells, after a long career as a major force in television, brings the quiet muscle and energy of the small screen to the large one with this, his first feature as a director.
Naturally, Wells attracts top-flight talent, so this “first-timer” has Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones to head his cast. That ought to help out a film that could meet considerable box office resistance. Those who have been laid off know all about this and those hanging on probably don’t want to hear about it.
A distributor can expect only modest returns, although the film may show up in college courses in a decade or two when students study the calamitous recession of the early 21st century. No, it’s not the great Depression and this is not “The Grapes of Wrath.” This is about middle- and upper-class men and their families who bought into the American dream and the greed-is-good mentality only to have a corporate run pulled from under them.
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ou know that feeling you had watching the downsizing sequences in Up in the Air — the dread mixed with empathy mixed with outrage mixed with the chilling sensation that anyone could be next, including you? That’s the feeling that extends through every minute of The Company Men, a shrewd, juicy, timely, and terrifically engrossing big-cast Sundance drama that marks the feature directorial debut of John Wells (best known as the executive producer and head writer of ER). Unlike Up in the Air, however, this movie doesn’t offer a glimpse into the plight of tossed-aside middle managers. It is, rather, about the high-rolling executives who’ve pigged out on the capitalist gravy train — the men swimming in stock options and country-club memberships and $500 lunches.
Why, you may ask, should we give a damn if they lose their jobs? Have no fear: That skeptical class resentment is built right into the movie. The Company Men draws on our innate compassion for anyone in trouble, yet at the same time the movie is cannily and intimately aware that the smugly gilded corporate aristocrats it’s about are the very sorts of self-invested, short-term-profit players who helped to get this country in such trouble in the first place. As they watch their jobs disappear, we watch their suddenly traumatized lives with an arresting mixture of sympathy and Schadenfreude. The message of the movie might be: Greedy, scum-sucking executive parasites are people too.
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A mostly positive day of films at Sundance concluded at the Eccles theater Friday night with the directorial debut of John Wells’ “The Company Men.” Wells, the creator of such critically acclaimed TV shows as “ER” and “The West Wing,” also wrote the original screenplay which focuses on the systematic dismantling of a giant construction corporation in the Boston, Mass. area. While a tad long, the strength of the film lies in the performances of leading men Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper and will surely lead to a swift acquisition from any number of major players.
All three men suffer from corporate downsizing during the film, but Affleck’s character, who is living the high life as a VP of Marketing (he drives a porsche, enjoys his golf club, etc.), is the first to be let go and deal with the ups and downs of trying to find a new job in the current economy. What’s refreshing about his storyline is that his wife, played by “Rachel’s Getting Married’s” Rosemarie DeWitt, is the only one in the family who realizes how difficult his search will be and that their rich lifestyle will have to drastically change. It’s hard to have sympathy at first for Affleck’s ego-driven character, but Wells puts him through a realistic enough ringer that a good chunk through the movie you’re hoping he can turn it around (at least for his family’s sake). It also helps that Affleck avoids the “woe is me” card as much as possible in his portrayal. The frustration is there, but this is no Daniel Day-Lewis as Guido in “Nine” whining going on.
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The Company Men will premiere at Sundance later this month.
One of the first casualties of a corporate downsize is Bobby Walker, a hot-shot sales executive who is living the idyllic life — complete with two kids and a mortgaged picket fence. His boss, and founder of the company, doesn’t take Bobby’s severance well, and he storms into the boardroom to demand a reprieve of the severe measures. He learns quickly that some choices are out of his hands, and this is only the beginning. We embark on a journey that is all too familiar in today’s recessionary economy: one that will test friendships, loyalties, and family bonds.
EDITED ON JAN 14TH: Find more on The Company Men at the Sundance Film Festival page & the Official Site.
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Sundance Institute today announced eight films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in eight different cities nationwide on the night of Thursday, January 28, 2010. The screenings are part of the inaugural Sundance Film Festival USA, a ground-breaking initiative designed to highlight the ability of art, specifically film, to introduce new concepts, challenge ideals and spur debate. The Sundance Film Festival opens January 21 and runs through January 31, 2010.
Courtesy of Official Airline Sponsor Southwest Airlines, filmmakers will be dispatched from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to cities across America, where they will introduce and screen their original films and engage in Q&As with local audiences. In addition to premiering their work at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, most of these artists have a previous connection to the non-profit Sundance Institute, whether as advisors to the Institute’s directors’ or screenwriters’ labs, or as participants in past Festivals. In each city an introduction video featuring Robert Redford and highlights from the Festival will precede the screenings. Tickets for the January 28 screenings are available through each individual theater’s box office.
Films screening as part of Sundance Film Festival USA are:
The Company Men — Brookline, MA — Coolidge Corner Theatre www.coolidge.org
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Katie Holmes, Ben Affleck, 50 Cent and Dakota Fanning are among the A-listers taking their films to the Sundance Film Festival.
The festival’s premieres section includes 13 films screening out of competition, among them The Company Men, a corporate-downsizing tale starring Ben, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello and Tommy Lee Jones.
Katie joins John C Reilly and Kevin Kline for the gigolo story The Extra Man, while 50 Cent appears with Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland in the crime drama Twelve from director Joel Schumacher.
Dakota and her Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart team up for director Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways, a portrait of rocker Joan Jett as she forms her band in the 1970s.
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Whilst updating the sidebar, I noticed that a lot of Maria’s recent movies are a bit up-in-the-air and haven’t had proper releases … so I thought I’d have a look around to check their status’s and post a round-up of release dates.
• Towelhead
US – Out now on DVD
UK/Europe – No known distributor, no theatrical or DVD release date
Aus – Out now on DVD
• Downloading Nancy
US – Received limited release in June, no DVD release date known yet
UK/Europe – No theatrical release date known yet
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• The Yellow Handkerchief
US – Straight to TV in 2010
UK/Europe – No release dates known yet
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• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
US – To be released in cinemas on October 23rd
UK/Europe – Received a limited theatrical release in the UK in July, released on DVD November 2nd.
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- Visit the official site: Official UK Site #1, Official UK Site #2 & Official US Site.
• The Company Men
US – February 2010 theatrical release?
UK/Europe/Aus – No release dates known yet
• Grown Ups
US – Released in cinemas June 25th 2010
UK/Europe – Released in German cinemas on July 22nd 2010
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Salma Hayek was hard to miss this weekend. The “Frida” actress and her husband, Puma CEO Francois-Henri Pinault, were at the Fan Pier Saturday as the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race resumed. The two then stopped by Kings, where Adam Sandler and his “Grown Ups” costars Chris Rock, David Spade, Maria Bello, and Kevin James kicked off the movie shoot with a family-friendly shindig. While some guests chowed on pulled-pork sliders and pizza, Sandler, James, and Steffiana de la Cruz, wife of “The King of Queens” star, bowled a few frames with their kids. Bello, meanwhile, was playing video games with her son Jackson and boyfriend Dan McDermott. (Hayek and Pinault brought their daughter Valentia Paloma.) Also there was director Dennis Dugan, producers Barry Bernardi and Jack Giarraputo, and actor Jonathan Loughran. The movie is set to start shooting today (May 18th) in Southborough.
- boston.com
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We did report this a few weeks ago, and provide you with the first set photos from this movie, but now the big news agencies have got the story as well, plus a few more details 
Variety says that Maria Bello and Craig T. Nelson have joined the cast of writer/director John Wells’ The Company Men.
The drama, starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Affleck, is about the impact that a corporate downsizing has on both its casualties and survivors.
Affleck plays a corporate hotshot whose Porsche and six-figure salary vanish after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a salt-of-the-earth drywall installer who gives him a construction job.
Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a principled man who struggles with the greedy actions of his partners.
Bello will play the vice president of human resources, who is forced to fire Affleck’s character. Nelson plays the CEO of the global conglomerate.
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“The Company Men” ’s first wives club is expanding. We hear that Tony-winning, Lowell-born actress Maryann Plunkett has signed on to play Chris Cooper’s wife in the recession-inspired drama, which has been shooting here (Boston) the past few weeks. UNH grad Plunkett – whose real-life husband, Jay O. Sanders, recently starred in the Huntington Theatre Company’s run of “Two Men of Florence” – joins “Mad Men” star Rosemarie DeWitt (she plays Ben Affleck’s wife) and Maria Bello, who has been filming scenes with Tommy Lee Jones. Bello’s in danger of picking up a Boston accent: She’ll stay in town to film “The Lake House” with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider. . . . In other “Company” news, Framingham resident Jim Idzal says he and wife Leslie are trying to decide whether to keep renovations made by the film’s crew. Before scenes with Affleck and Kevin Costner were shot at the Idzals’ home last week, the crew made the couple’s living room a dining room, and their dining room a living room. Idzal said he and his wife aren’t opposed to the switch – it’s just confusing. “We moved out for about two weeks because they were redecorating the whole first floor.” Idzal said Costner was the most outgoing of his guests; Mr. “Field of Dreams” took the time to socialize with neighbors and take pictures.
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