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Title: "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
Review: Here is a junky, TV-style version of the new millenium recession. It has all the hypocrisy and schmaltzy platitudes of a Disney Newseum, person-of-week report. There is Tommy Lee Jones as a saintly executive who is canned but starts his own business and saves all his old cronies from the poor house. (Happens all the time!) There is laid-off hotshot Ben Affleck, whose family loves him so much they even like living with the in-laws. (Downsizing is great for family values!) There is a really disturbing scene where Affleck chooses to work for his brother-in-law, Kevin Costner, instead of robbing a bank. (Pathetic!) There is one convincing character who manages to make it clear that suicide really is painless, but, in the end, it is just more pandering crap from the writer-director who gave us THE WEST WING.
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