I thought this was a pretty good movie. The cast was very good (Costner, Affleck, Jones, etc). This is a good attempt at showing what life is like for a lot of white collar workers in this day and age. Ben Affleck does a good job showing how white collar workers are suffering at the hands of the economy. It raises a lot of good questions about what a company owes a worker and vice versa. I thought the way the story was told could have been better , but it was still good enough to makes its point. That being, at the end of the day, the ability to start over in the middle of your prime working years is possible with the help of family and friends.