The Company Men (2010)

Most of us, maybe all of us, know somebody who is represented by the main characters in this movie.  That makes it a little more real, a little too real, and a little painful to watch.

Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones are guys in the way upper middle class who lose their jobs. There has been a ton of that going around in the last half decade.  If we have not experienced that ourselves, who know someone who has.

The painful process of losing one's job and making the necessary life-adjustments is only vaguely familiar many of us.  There but for the grace of some higher power go we?  Several scenes in this movie are painfully real.

Watch this with someone who has not lost their job recently.