Aside from Jason Reitman‘s Up In The Air, Oliver Stone‘s Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps and a couple of snooze-worthy doc’s, few filmmakers have utilized our current economic climate on the project-front. First feature-length writer/director John Wells takes a stab at a little social/economic commentary in his film The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck (watch interview), Tommy Lee Jones, and Chris Cooper. The film’s up for a nationwide release this Friday. Check out the review below…

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Despite nearly getting pummeled on their way in into the press room (something that is not very common at Sundance, but apparently if you use celebs, the fans will come) Ben Affleck and Rosemarie DeWitt walked in from the cold and sat down to a roundtable to discuss their roles in the A-list indie drama, The Company Men directed by John Wells. Both talked about their roles in the film, the recession, and Affleck even talked about how to make good films and how not every film he’s done has been great – he used Daredevil as his example and I think the entire table was in agreement.

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