Montreal-based VVS Films reports that "The Company Men", from Emmy Award-winning writer/director John Wells ("ER"), will be available in Canada, on DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Dowload and Video On-Demand (VOD), July 5, 2011 :
"...the film analyzes the effects of corporate downsizing, with Affleck playing an aggressive white-collar corporate ladder climbing employee who, after losing his six-figure salary, gradually loses the trappings of his white-collar life (Country Club membership, Porsche, and finally his home) before being offered a job installing drywall from his blue-collar working brother-in-law, played by Costner.
"Cooper plays a middle manager who has risen from the factory floors to the corporate offices. He also loses his six-figure salary job, but because of his age is finding himself unemployable. The pressures on both men grows as the weeks and months pass by with no prospects of employment appearing.
"On the other side of the coin, the cushy lives of executive management are noted with both Jones and Nelson playing characters who suffer no misfortune during the trying times, until Jones' character is served his walking papers..."
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