In America, we give our lives to our jobs. It's time to take them back.
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and fathers.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Ben AffleckBobby Walker
- Tommy Lee JonesGene McClary
- Chris CooperPhil Woodward
- Kevin CostnerJack Dolan
- Maria BelloSally Wilcox
- Rosemarie DeWittMaggie Walker
- Craig T. NelsonSalinger
- Eamonn WalkerDanny
- Tom KempConal Doherty
- Nancy VilloneDiane Lindstrom
Crew
- John WellsDirector
- John WellsScreenplay
- Roger DeakinsDirector of Photography
- Aaron ZigmanOriginal Music Composer
- Robert FrazenEditor
- Paula WeinsteinProducer
- Claire Rudnick PolsteinProducer
- John WellsProducer
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