Synopsis
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
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Cast
- Ben AffleckBobby Walker
- Tommy Lee JonesGene McClary
- Chris CooperPhil Woodward
- Kevin CostnerJack Dolan
- Maria BelloSally Wilcox
- Rosemarie DeWittMaggie Walker
- Craig T. NelsonSalinger
- Eamonn WalkerDanny
- Tom KempConal Doherty
- Nancy VilloneDiane Lindstrom
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
Kevin Costner, as Bobby's carpenter brother-in-law, does the finest character acting of his career. - 90
The New York Times
The movie is realistic enough to make all corporate climbers, but especially men over 50, quake in their boots. If you are what you do, what are you if you're no longer doing it? - 88
Observer
Enhanced by superb writing and direction and nuanced performances by an ensemble of great actors, and enough take-home food for thought to keep the mind and senses totally focused from start to finish, The Company Men is pretty damn close to as good as it gets in a disappointing year at the movies. - 75
The A.V. Club
The cast doesn't treat The Company Men like a slideshow. They take something overly schematic and imbue it with real anxiety, shame, and humility. - 70
Village Voice
The Company Men is maybe best understood as a chick flick about dicks: Before its too-easy conclusion, the movie offers a multifaceted glimpse at what can happen when the connective tissue between a man and his source of income is cut, and rarely suggests that it could be anything less than excruciating to stop the bleeding. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
Despite the all-too-harrowing familiarity of these scenes, they seem more like illustrations than dramatizations of trauma. - 60
Time Out
A quintet of actors carve out a beautiful, ill-fated geometry in John Wells's layoff drama, which might play like a retort to "Up in the Air" if it didn't have shortcomings of its own. - 60
Variety
The pain feels cushioned and secondhand, the characters are not terribly sympathetic or interesting other than for their misfortune, and the film shows little interest in analyzing the situation other than to point fingers at greedy CEOs.
