Thin Film

Thin Film Review

Stacy Crown has built his name into one of the most recognizable in the business. He has had a hand in virtually every major housing development in the Chicago region for the past three decades. His business booms, and he takes his growing firm across town into a posh new office. His hopes are high.

Then the great housing bubble bursts. Stacy and his company scramble to cut costs, but it’s to no great effect. Stacy leaves to visit his brother in San Diego to get away from it all. Once there, he discovers the city’s convention center is playing host to a conference on solar power. He loathes the ‘green’ movement, but decides to attend the conference nonetheless.

Back home, Stacy returns to his company to find that another employee has left. He calls an all-staff meeting to share with the others his intent to dissolve the business. But one of his younger employees, one he had dismissed as a hopeless idealist, suggests a new strategy for the company—one that gives light to what Stacy had learned while in San Diego.