Three’s ‘Company’

The recession has struck America’s metropolitan cities and its heartland alike with layoffs and ever -elusive job opportunities, and here is Hollywood again to tell us all about it. Following the recession-savvy Up in the Air is The Company Men, new in theaters this Friday. Ben Affleck plays a young business executive who has a wonderful family and beautiful wife. In fact, he has it all, until his job is taken away forcing him to examine himself and his life as he moves forward through uncertain times. Helmed by ER producer and director John Wells, this drama details the struggles of a modern man and those around him caught in the same corporate machine, facing downsizing and the same dangerous American Dream, the realities of life and livelihood. Maria Bello, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones co-star. Rated R.