The Company Men (2010)

Greedy company downsizes Ben Affleck out of his cushy job and then goes and downsizes Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones right out of their, more senior & cushy positions.

It’s a little TOO timely to be affecting, but it’s not a bad movie by any means. At least it didn’t have any false “HA HA, we discarded workers will, without missing a beat, immediately unite to make a new company that bankrupts the old one and teaches those bastards a lesson in humility and the importance of PEOPLE over MONEY!” that I was expecting with my eyes roll-ready.

Kinda quiet and almost boring, which is the price it pays for the reality of the situation (I also enjoyed that they didn’t try to make privileged corporate boy Affleck likable right away).

B-