Director John Wells' critically-acclaimed drama The Company Men will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 7. The standard DVD will be priced at $29.98 Srp, while the Blu-ray will cost $39.99 Srp. You can take a look at the cover artwork and special features details below.
In The Company Men, Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American Dream, until he is stunned to find himself the latest casualty of corporate downsizing. Suddenly, Bobby - along with his co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) - is forced to re-evaluate his self-worth as a husband, as a father, and as a man. For as long as he can remember, he's given his life to his job. Now, with only the love of his wife and family, it's time to take his life back.
With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells introduces us to the new realities of American life,...
In The Company Men, Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American Dream, until he is stunned to find himself the latest casualty of corporate downsizing. Suddenly, Bobby - along with his co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) - is forced to re-evaluate his self-worth as a husband, as a father, and as a man. For as long as he can remember, he's given his life to his job. Now, with only the love of his wife and family, it's time to take his life back.
With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells introduces us to the new realities of American life,...
- 5/17/2011
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
Bob Ellis on the Oscar-winning The King’s Speech (available on DVD this month), Biutiful, The Company Men and the passing of Sidney Lumet.
The Oxford scholar Peter Levi had a theory that Shakespeare was popular because he had only one theme. A man or a woman, he said, is given a task to which he or she is unequal, and comedy or tragedy follows. Thus Hamlet, an adequate joshing student, is a poor avenger, Brutus, an adequate stoic philosopher, a poor generalissimo, Othello a fine generalissimo but a dumb older husband of a young white wife, Malvolio a shambolic wooer, Viola a lousy transvestite, and so on.
This theory well fits The King’s Speech and explains its international popularity. We all of us as children have been made to recite, or sing, or perform acrobatics on stage, and have dreaded the anguished humiliation the experiment was bound to bring to us.
The Oxford scholar Peter Levi had a theory that Shakespeare was popular because he had only one theme. A man or a woman, he said, is given a task to which he or she is unequal, and comedy or tragedy follows. Thus Hamlet, an adequate joshing student, is a poor avenger, Brutus, an adequate stoic philosopher, a poor generalissimo, Othello a fine generalissimo but a dumb older husband of a young white wife, Malvolio a shambolic wooer, Viola a lousy transvestite, and so on.
This theory well fits The King’s Speech and explains its international popularity. We all of us as children have been made to recite, or sing, or perform acrobatics on stage, and have dreaded the anguished humiliation the experiment was bound to bring to us.
- 4/11/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
John Wells discusses his feature film directorial debut
John Wells began his career as a writer and director on the popular '80s series China Beach, but made a name for himself as en executive producer of such groundbreaking television series as ER, The West Wing and Southland. Wells has also had a hand in producing such popular films as The Peacemaker, One Hour Photo, Far From Heaven, White Oleander, Infamous and I'm Not There. Now the producer returns to writing and directing with his feature film debut, The Company Men, which opens in theaters on January 21st.
The film stars an all-star cast that includes Oscar winners Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting), Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), Chris Cooper (Adaptation) and Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves), as well Maria Bello (Grown Ups), Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) and Craig T. Nelson (The Proposal). The movie takes place in Massachusetts...
John Wells began his career as a writer and director on the popular '80s series China Beach, but made a name for himself as en executive producer of such groundbreaking television series as ER, The West Wing and Southland. Wells has also had a hand in producing such popular films as The Peacemaker, One Hour Photo, Far From Heaven, White Oleander, Infamous and I'm Not There. Now the producer returns to writing and directing with his feature film debut, The Company Men, which opens in theaters on January 21st.
The film stars an all-star cast that includes Oscar winners Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting), Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), Chris Cooper (Adaptation) and Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves), as well Maria Bello (Grown Ups), Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married) and Craig T. Nelson (The Proposal). The movie takes place in Massachusetts...
- 1/19/2011
- by MovieWeb
- MovieWeb
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