“It was only a matter of time” before the “credit crunch movie” arrived, said the Guardian. Ben Affleck is in talks to star in The Company Men, which is about a man dealing “with the consequences of being laid off, while also experiencing problems in his relationship.” Are we going to start seeing a lot of movies like this popping up?
Probably, said Katey Rich in Cinema Blend, “with the current financial crisis looking to last a long, long time.” But these films “may become the equivalent of Iraq war movies—timely and important, but too depressing and reminiscent of audience's actual troubles at home.”
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