The Company Men

The Company Men is directed by John Wells in 2010 written and twisted film drama.

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Bobby Walker learns one morning that he is released. His lifestyle can be described as high-end, so that it can no longer finance this without the well-paid profession. His wife urges him to his possessions, as the big house or his Porsche to sell. The family is forced to move back into his parents' house, since Bobby is adjusted by any company, which is probably due to the excessive claims. The job was his life, he has now lost to Bobby. For this reason, it is in an identity crisis and sees himself as a failed man who now has to give up everything because of financial hardships. However, by unemployment, he only finds out what caused him luck in his life. He has his wife Maggie Walker, who loves him, and two children with whom he can spend a lot more time now. The brother of his wife, Jack Dolan, is a craftsman, offering him at the insistence of Maggie a job as an assistant to. After initial difficulties, he finds increasingly pleased with his work.

Meanwhile, the crisis of the company meets two other managers. Gene McClary and Phil Woodward to leave the company. Phil Woodward spends the day in bars and get drunk. His wife does not want to because of the reputation that it can be seen in the evening at home. His life is destroyed for him, he has lived for the company and will be dismissed without further notice. He commits suicide in a garage, where he closes the door, the engine of his car running and thus inhaling the fumes.

Gene McClary has an affair with Sally Wilcox, who also works at the company. When he is released from her, he withdraws into her home and apparently sinking into lethargy. His actual wife he appears rarely, the marriage appears to be over. He sums up courage and founded his own company with manufacturing facilities on the former site of his old company. Bobby Walker, meanwhile, wants to actually continue to exercise the craft activity, but Jack tells him to re-enter the economy, which is why you see him at the end of the film in a small office of Gene's company, where he leads a small department.

Production

Filming for the production began in April 2009 and ended in June of the same year in Boston. Partial found the filming take place in the vicinity of Boston's Roxbury district and in the suburbs of Wellesley and Framingham.

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has made ​​an average rating of 76%.

The lexicon of the International film rated the film critical:

" This is exactly observed Drama spelled the refusal of women to seek meaning beyond the desk, nuanced without going push forward the question of how a life without the source of meaning " work " can succeed. The Conjured happy ending also undermined the tentative approaches to question the psychological depths of male role models critically. "

" A painful movie drama about downsizing and humiliation, but which presents an all too simple promise of salvation in the end. "

2010 in film Screenplay Film score Aaron Zigman Roxbury (Boston) Framingham, Massachusetts
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