RUSH: By the way, this movie, The Company Men? I left out something that's very important about this movie. You know what the solution to everybody's problems is, the end of the movie? Entrepreneurism. Everybody gets blown out by this mythical corporation, and they go through the process of trying to find a job. They go to a placement agency where they're given desk space. They fill out applications; they go on interviews. They find nothing. They end up dehumanized in the process, and it's happened to all of us. Every time we look for a job, we're lied to by people who interview us, lied to about how close we are to getting a job, all these things. One guy sells his house, sells his Beamer, moves back in with his parents.
He doesn't want to do any of it; it's his wife who realizes the depth of their situation. He ends up going to work construction with his wife's brother. That's all he can find, and he got three months severance. Now, one of the people in the movie that ends up getting the axe is top-ranked management character played by Tommy Lee Jones, and he got a great severance package 'cause he had a lot of stock. So his going away number was pretty good, but he lounges around and lollygags around and loses his wife 'cause he's having an affair with the human resources babe in the company, who's firing everybody. As I tell you, there are things in this movie that are distinctly Democrat, even though it takes its obligatory shot at Republicans and big businessmen.
Other than that it's a really good movie, but in the end this Tommy Lee Jones character decides to take his big number, his retirement package and start his own business and hires everybody back. Not at what they were making. The guy that put this movie together, wrote the movie is the guy that wrote The West Wing. Left-wing Democrat, anti-corporate, what have you. But the solution to all these people's problem is one guy decides to plow his money into a new business. At his age he could easily go live on the beach. He could say, "You know, to heck with it," but he decides he's not through working. So he starts a maritime business and hires as many of these people that he knew from the corporation back.
The movie ends with them going through the usual rah-rah teamwork, everybody happy to be back, everybody refocused, making this company sing and hum. It's entrepreneurism that ends up saving them. They don't get cured by a government handout. They don't get cured by food stamps. They don't go to the "green" energy sector. They don't get a grant from Obama. They have to rely on this one guy who decides to be an entrepreneur it's a good movie. As I say, there are just the usual obligatory swats at ugly CEOs and heartless, cold-hearted Republicans. You get past that because that's a minor aspect here of the -- movie.
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