Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones are joining Ben Affleck to star in The Company Men, an independent drama about the impact of corporate downsizing has on casualties and survivors.

John Wells wrote the script and will direct. Filming starts in April in Boston.

Affleck plays a corporate crackerjack whose Porsche and six-figure salary becomes extinct after he gets laid off. Costner plays his brother-in-law, a well-thought of drywall installer who gives him a construction job.

Jones plays a senior partner in the firm, a honorable man who struggles with the avaricious transgressions of his partners.