A view of the effects of the economic crisis in a company gutted and “diversified” by a CEO turned bottom-line pig (Craig T. Nelson). Ben Affleck (rising sales exec), Chris Cooper (vulnerable workaholic), and Tommy Lee Jones (grizzled dreamer-doer) turn on the spit, yearning not just to survive but to …

While house-sitting at the posh home of one of her clients, a yoga instructor’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) husband (co-writer Jake Johnson) unearths a gun and what appears to be a human bone buried on the property. This plot gizmo is dispensed with almost as fast as it arrives. This leaves ample …

...in L.A. - get it? New York artist-girl (a highly sexualized Olivia Thirlby) camps out in the Silver Lake home of a Hollywood sound engineer, his wife, and their kids (one shared, one step). Almost everyone proceeds to get the itch: hubby for artist, wife's therapy patient for wife, daughter …

A natural gas salesman (Matt Damon, not director Gus Van Sant) uses the economy as a bully stick to convince a small town into accepting his company's offer for drilling rights to their properties. He is opposed by a charismatic stranger (John Krasinski) who takes advantage of an open-mic night …

A sort of Rainbow Coalition wedding weekend: the father of the Jewish bride had remarried a black, the bride too is marrying a black (it might be noted that Sidney Lumet, the father of first-time scriptwriter Jenny Lumet, had remarried a black himself), and the theme of the wedding is …

At first, Your Sister's Sister plays like a comedy of very modern manners, everything so up to date that antique notions of "good" and "bad" can be replaced safely by "gratifying" and "weird." Jack (a bearish Mark Duplass) is a sweet, modern guy, but he's sad, because his brother died …