Hollywood is still pumping out movies about rich people and all the stuff they can afford to buy-- see Bride Wars as the first offender of 2009-- but Mean Girls director Mark Waters seems to have figured out what we all want to see in this recession. He's in negotiations to direct Minimum Wage, a comedy about a CEO who gets convicted of fraud and, as his punishment, must spend a year working a minimum wage job in the town that his company destroyed.
Comeuppance! Celebration of the working class! What more could you want of a movie right now? Even better, Variety says it will be produced by Participant Media, the lefty, social-minded company that gave us The Visitor and Standard Operating Procedure last year. That means it might actually have a thought in its head about the class and economic issues it's dealing with, unlike the usual comedy stuff that pretends to have a "meaning" but is mostly a vehicle for the two leads to finally kiss at the end (when New in Town comes out in a few weeks, you'll know what I mean).
