What the corpus says about The Company Men (2011)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Company Men (2011) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Company Men (2011) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:23:48 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Koppelman recommends The Company Men as a good if lesser film in the same mold. · "if you like this movie, um, that I really, really like. It's not as good as margin call, but really good is the company man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:35:46 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ The Company Men · theme · Russillo remembers Affleck's kid's jumper in The Company Men. · "Affleck's kid has probably one of the best jumpers I've ever seen in a movie or TV"
[pairs] The Company Men ↔ Margin Call · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:23:57 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · programming · Koppelman's double-feature picks are Wolf of Wall Street or Sweet Smell of Success. · "Either wolf of Wall Street or sweet smell of success."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:02 · Ryen Russillo (0.80)] Margin Call ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Russillo's double-feature pick. · "Bright lights, big city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 1:24:10 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Margin Call ↔ Wall Street · programming · Simmons chooses Wall Street as the best double feature, a fun mix that complements. · "I would go Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show) · lineage · Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer. · "this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · lineage · Margin Call is in the finance-movie family that Wolf is the mothership of. · "This is, you know, the mothership."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65)] Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing) · lineage · Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet. · "Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:02:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85)] Margin Call ↔ Liar's Poker · theme · Russillo links the movie's no-one-knows-what's-going-on feeling to Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. · "I always think of that liar's poker effect from Michael Lewis"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · 0:20:50 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Margin Call ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Koppelman names Wolf as the other movie he has watched most, for the psychology of its people. · "Wolf of Wall Street's the other movie I've probably watched the most"
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[speaker] Ryen Russillo · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Deep-dives on 2008, finance, scene mechanics and detail; loves Irons's powerful-as-normal act and the sales-floor scene. Can't stand bad athletic casting. · stances: Irons is his favorite performance; Seth is next-generation; 2008 aged best for storytelling; Hot take: Demi Moore as scapegoat today
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Company Men (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Company Men (2011) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.