Instead of movie "for our times" the movie "The Company Men" is of our times. You probably haven't heard of it but it recently became available for rent and I rented it from Redbox last night because Netflix has it on "long wait." Apparently locals have no interest in a drama about people getting laid off from their work and struggling to find another job. This one stars Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Keven Costner plus a bunch of other well known actors. If anything the only flaw with the movie is the latter is that well known actors can often take you out of the movie. Affleck plays a sales executive who loses his job as a sales executive and finds it difficult to find another one while trying to maintain his family's standard of living.
This, of course, is a very common story these days and this film will wind up being a classic that exemplifies the times. Director/writer John Wells takes no prisoners in showing how bad things can be when greed destroys the economy (as exemplified by the CEO of Affleck's company played by Craig T Nelson). http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/The_Company_Men/70124965 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172991/
