Company Men
| Movie | |
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| German title | Company Men, alternatively: The Company Men - profit is not everything |
| Original title | The Company Men |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | John Wells |
| script | John Wells |
| production | Claire Rudnick Polstein, Paula Weinstein, John Wells |
| music | Aaron Zigman |
| camera | Roger Deakins |
| cut | Robert Frazen |
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Company Men is a 2010 American film about business and the decline of values. Directed by John Wells , who also wrote the script.
action
Bobby Walker learns of his release one morning. He can no longer afford his upscale lifestyle without the well-paid job. His wife urges him to sell possessions like the big house or his Audi. The family is forced to move into his parents' house, as Bobby with his high standards is not employed by any company. For him the job was his life that he lost; hence he thinks he is a failed man. He gets into a crisis of meaning. But through unemployment he also learns what really means something to him in his life. He has his wife, Maggie Walker, who loves him, and two children with whom he can now spend much more time. His wife's brother, Jack Dolan, is a craftsman and offers him a job as a temporary worker, which he finally accepts at Maggie's insistence. After initial difficulties, he increasingly enjoys the work.
Meanwhile, the company's crisis hits two more managers. Gene McClary and Phil Woodward have to leave the company. Phil Woodward spends the day in bars getting drunk. His wife doesn't want him to be seen at home before evening. His life seems to him destroyed; he has sacrificed himself for the company and will not let you go anything. He committed suicide in his garage by closing the gate and running the engine of his car.
Gene McClary has an affair with Sally Wilcox, who also works for the company. When he is released by her, he withdraws to her apartment and initially sinks into lethargy. He rarely shows himself to his wife, the marriage seems to be over. But he took up new courage and founded his own company with production halls on the former site of his old company. Meanwhile, Bobby Walker actually wants to continue doing his temporary job, but Jack advises him to get back into business because he is a lousy handyman. You see him at the end of the film in a small office in Gene's company, where he is training a small department.
production
Filming for the production began in April 2009 and ended in Boston in June of that year . Some of the exterior shots were shot near the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston and in the suburbs of Wellesley and Framingham .
reception
The film received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave an average rating of 67%.
The lexicon of international film evaluates the film more critically:
“The closely observing drama spells out the men's refusal to seek meaning beyond the desk, nuanced, without approaching the question of how a life can succeed without“ work ”as a source of meaning. The conjured up happy ending also counteracts the timid attempts to critically question the psychological depths of male role models. "
"A painful cinema drama about downsizing and humiliation, which in the end presents an all too simple promise of salvation."
Web links
- Company Men at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Company Men atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Company Men . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 269 K).
- ^ Company Men. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed December 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Buss: Crisis drama "The Company Men". My car, my house, my cardboard box. Spiegel Online, July 6, 2011, accessed April 17, 2018 .