'The Company Men' premiere slotted for Brookline

The Sundance Film Festival USA announced yesterday that the made-in-Boston downsizing drama "The Company Men," starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones and Rosemarie DeWitt, will have its world premiere at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010.

Director and screenwriter John Wells will unveil the made-in-Boston drama about three company men attempting to survive a round of corporate downsizing while trying to fend off its effects on their families and their identities.

Filming locations included Daisy Buchanan's on Newbury Street, Gannon Municipal Golf Course in Lynn, a three-story brownstone located at 5 Union Park and one at 78 Waltham St., Fish and Richardson in South Boston as well as the Hodgdon House located at 174 Highland Street in the Fort Hill section of Roxbury.

Additional locales include Milton Cemetery, the Fiduciary Trust Building located at 175 Federal St. near High Street in the Financial District, a private residence on Crowninshield Road in Marblehead as well as Wellesley.

In "The Company Men," Affleck plays a corporate bigwig whose six-figure salary is suddenly cut after he gets a pink slip. Costner, a blue-collar construction worker who is boasting a posh Kennedy-esque Boston accent, offers Affleck a job installing drywall.

Tickets for the Coolidge Corner Theatre event will be available online here and at the box office beginning January 4 for Coolidge members and January 6 for the general public.

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