The Company Men (1:55) 2010

The Company Men focuses on the lives of three executives whose jobs are eliminated when their corporation downsides. Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones face both the emotional, psychological, and financial stresses of being unemployed. The movie really does a good job of showing how losing a job due to "redundancy" or losing a job at age 60 is literally having the rug pulled out from under. It also shows the tension employees live with daily when their company is looking to increase profits in a recession. Not to use another idiom, but viewing this movie was like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Chris Cooper is an excellent actor and really conveys the trauma of a sudden job loss. Cooper was also very convincing in the scenes when he is expressing anger at the company where he worked for thirty years cuts him loose. The members of the audience made comments during some of scenes when large CEO salaries and bonuses, were mentioned, we shared  his anger. This is a movie worth seeing especially in these difficult economic times.