For Ben Affleck, that means starring in and directing the romantic crime thriller The Town. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Town follows the relationship between a bank manager (Vicky Cristina Barcelona‘s Rebecca Hall), the career criminal (Affleck) who stole her heart and is trying to go straight to win her, and the dedicated FBI agent (Mad Men‘s Jon Hamm) trying to bust the crook and his gang.
Ever since Gone Baby Gone, I have a whole new respect for Affleck as a director; he totally nailed it with Gone‘s very dark subject matter, and I thought, “Finally, Ben has found his niche.” Because, you know, I worry about him and all the poor choices he has made in his career. So, this new film from him has got me just a wee bit excited to see if I was right about the boy.