Jason Sudeikis, left, and Owen Wilson are shown in a scene from "Hall Pass." The film opens in theaters this weekend. "Hall Pass"
Fandango overview: Best friends Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) have each been married for a long time, and they are showing signs of restlessness. To revitalize their marriages, their wives grant Rick and Fred one week to do whatever they please, no questions asked. At first, the deal sounds like a dream come true, but soon these two best pals discover that their expectations are wildly out of sync with reality.
Orlando Sentinel: Movie Review: Hall Pass: Those "There's Something About Mary" Farrelly Brothers try to get their edge back with "Hall Pass," a rude and seriously crude riff on taking a vacation from marriage.
But as they get older, they’re having more and more trouble balancing the sentimental with the outrageously vulgar. They’ve made a mature comedy about immature men acting immaturely. It’s “The Hangover” without that movie’s sucker punches.
“Hall Pass” is about husbands who talk about sex too much, fantasize too often and share all this adolescent behavior with each other and with their long-suffering wives.
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"Drive Angry"
Fandango overview: Thrown down into hell for his crimes, brutal felon Milton (Nicolas Cage) breaks out of the fiery pit after cultists murder his daughter and take her baby. Intent on rescuing his grandchild, Milton joins forces with a waitress, who gives him her ex-lover's bright red muscle car. The pair speed off in pursuit of the cult leader, who plans to sacrifice the infant and unleash hell on Earth. However, the hunters become the hunted when Satan sends his merciless henchman to drag Milton back to hell.
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"The Company Men"
Fandango overview: Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) which does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal.
Orlando Sentinel: Movie Review: The Company Men: The film, now showing in some cities, is about men, mostly, who are not the villains of the global financial meltdown, but not the most sympathetic victims of it either. They are the well-off guys who have thrived in a corporate culture that gave them trophy homes, trophy Porsches and trophy wives.
And then the bottom falls out. Ben Affleck stars as Bobby, a VP of sales of GTX, a transportation conglomerate where “We need to get the stock price up” leads to mass layoffs. Bobby is the first to get the meeting with the HR hitwoman (Maria Bello), the first to collect a severance package and the first to waste his days at the outplacement firm his company hired to help him find a new job.
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