theaters this weekend. are they worth the trip? pete hammond is with box office magazine and he s joining us from los angeles. let s start with a short clip from one of the first movies we want to look at the company men. this is ben affleck. let s take a little look at it first. i responded to an ad for the vice president of marketing. well, we ve had a number of highly qualified applicants for that position. i am a highly qualified applicant for that position. i m a highly qualified applicant for that position. excuse me. i m sorry. i must have had too many cups of coffee while i was sitting in your waiting room for two hours. thanks for your time, joyce. just between the two of us, you can probably skip the diet co cokes, they re not helping you. all right, this is really a slice of real life too. people losing their jobs.
fed their kids, bought homes, made enough to send their kids to college, buy a second car. building something they could see, not just figures on a balance sheet but a ship they could see, smell and touch. that was a clip from the company men a film about corporate downsizing and its devastating blow on white collar workers. it s out in theaters today. and here to talk about the movie and the jock market is actor tommy lee jones in west palm beach, florida and here on the set, the film s director, screenwriter and producer, john wells and with us at the table, host of msnbc s last word lawrence o donnell. let s start with you, john.
commerce and those big multinational corporations on his side, yet not lose the voters? we ll watch how he stage manages this in the next few days before the state of union. thank you always for your insights and perspective. up next on the dr show, hollywood takes on corporate downsizing. thanks for not running any of my calls. if you do return my call, i would love to know how i fired me without any notice, you cowardly witch. we ll talk to the director of the company men and life in the great recession. here s a myth:
or anybody got the wrong impression. gabby giffords and i were close, she was a member of my class. do i think that the rhetoric should be toned down. well, sort of. coming up next, tommy lee jones joins to us talk about his new movie, the company men. [ female announcer ] now, transform dry, damaged hair.
a lot of that will be through entrepreneurs, with people taking chances as tommy lee jones character does eventually in the film. the movie is the company men out just in time for oscar consideration, so good luck with that. we ll be talking about how to bet on that later. playing the race card, why did former senator rick santorum bring up the president s race when talking about abortion? we ll hear from toure in our daily rant. and gabby giffords is leaving the hospital, continuing to inspire the nation. and made it less intense. now people everywhere are getting a deep clean and fresher mouth without the intensity that kept them away. it still kills bad breath germs for a whole mouth clean. but it s never felt so good. new listerine® zero™. deep clean. less intense.