Company Men

Drama
4 stars
Very good but so depressing. Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper star is this melancholy film about people we know too well losing their jobs and how they cope in different ways. Kevin Costner costars with his jarringly phony Boston accent, but his performance is very real. My Uncle Jim’s Fore River Shipyard also has a role in film (my Uncle Jim was one of the last let go before the place closed down) and it was nice to see it have a purpose again. Very good, but so sad to have today’s sad economy and terrible job market highlighted on the big screen. Well acted, good movie.