The Company Men is a 2010 American drama film, written and directed by John Wells. The movie puts three successful corporate employees, namely Bobby Walker, Gene McClary, and Dan Foreman, at the ...

Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) has it all. Second-in-command at the Massachusetts multinational firm GTX, he lives in a Tara-like mansion — two Christmas trees in the foyer — with a wife who airily ...

A sober, clear-eyed study of how corporate layoffs force men to reassess the meaning of success in their lives and with their families. By Kirk Honeycutt Writer-director John Wells, after a long ...

There are very few adults who haven't, at some point over the last few years, at least wondered what they would do if they were laid off. And usually some well-meaning person says something chipper ...

They're already shooting this? That was my first reaction to this photo. We only last wrote about The Company Men back in late March, when it was announced that both Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones ...

The Company Men marks the directorial debut of veteran TV producer John Wells (ER), and if anyone ever doubts what industry clout can do, just consider the cast Wells has assembled here. Ben Affleck ...

When caught on camera, the act of firing somebody can be portrayed many different ways. It can be deep and introspective, especially if we’re watching George Clooney do it in an Oscar-nominated film.

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

With the unemployment rate stubbornly dwelling around the double digits, the story of “The Company Men” will no doubt hit close to American homes: A massive corporation responds to flagging profits ...

There was a time, in the 1970s, when stories of middle-class alienation and dreamers struggling to get ahead were invariably set in New York. Lately, such accounts of white- and blue-collar angst have ...