Excellent Motion Picutre - I Could Relate!

Rating: 8/10 (16 January 2011)

Just saw this flick on a Pay channel yesterday, and I must say I did enjoy it. Perhaps it's because I can relate to the main character's (George Clooney) dilemma as far as the traveling and comes the time, he was faced with ending that. Fresh out of college, I took a job decades ago as an Internal Auditor with a major food machines manufacturer then in Troy, Ohio, and was on the road about 70% of the time - always traveling first-class, eating in fine restaurants, and staying in first-class surroundings. It was 'the life' for me, a 26 year-old who'd never done extensive traveling - I got to 'see the world', so to say, and loved every minute of it. One day, about three years later, it all came 'crashing down' when the company was sold and these positions were deemed 'excess expense' and all in my department were suddenly out of a job. I spent a few weeks at home getting 'reacquainted' as to how the non-traveling world works, and I hated it! I had met many while traveling (a few like his 'love') and the realization 'set in' that I'd likely never see them again - and this became the truth. As is often the truth, however, we all 'moved on' and made our lives in other ways so many years ago. The traveling did let me make a 'new home' in Southern California today, and I'm now retired after two + decades working for a local large computer maker. I often think back to my experiences back then, which is a reason I did enjoy this motion picture so much. I got somewhat 'absorbed' into the main character's lifestyle, which is when I rate a motion picture a 'keeper'. Many thanks!!!