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Happy Times (2000)

01 Mar

102m; China

Director: Yimou Zhang

Cast: Lifan Dong, Benshan Zhao and Jie Dong

Synopsis (IMDB): Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he’s the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel “Happy Times”, Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Heavens Above! (1963)

01 Mar

118m; U.K.

Director: John Boulting

Cast: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker and Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish and converts factory owner to idea of wealth sharing.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Politics, Working Class

 

His Girl Friday (1940)

01 Mar

92m; U.S.

Director: Howard Hawkes

Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

 
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Posted by on March 1, 2012 in Comedy, Romance, Working Class

 

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Fun With Dick and Jane (1977)

21 Feb

95m; U.S.

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Cast: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon

Synopsis (IMDB): When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, White Collar, Working Class

 

Caddyshack (1980)

21 Feb

98m; U.S.

Director: Harold Ramis

Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray

Synopsis: An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, White Collar

 

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

21 Feb

127m; U.S.

Director: Michael Moore

Synopsis: On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece “Roger & Me,” Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” comes home to the issue he’s been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Documentary, Finance, Global Economy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing, Outsourcing, Politics, Service Workers, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts, Working Class

 

Car Wash (1976)

21 Feb

97m; U.S.

Director: Michael Schultz 

Cast: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye and Darrow Igus

Synopsis: Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt, including Richard Pryor as a preaching ‘wonder-man’ who is loved by most but loathed by one, and a man who looks like a thief by the way he is holding his bottle, but it is really his urine sample as he is off to the hospital. T.C’s love life takes a turn for the better and the songs keep coming

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Blacks, Comedy, Service Workers

 

Carbide and Sorrel (1963)

21 Feb

80m

Director: Frank Beyer

Synopsis (First Run Features): A hilarious and rare classic of German cinema, CARBIDE AND SORREL is a road trip adventure set in the last days of World War II. In a brilliant performance, Erwin Geschonneck plays Kalle, a non-smoking cigarette factory worker who – dogged by every possible mishap – must travel hundreds of miles without a truck to get a load of carbide back to Dresden, where his chain-smoking co-workers can use them to weld their ruined factory back together.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Working Class

 

The Catered Affair (1956)

21 Feb

92m; U.S.

Director: Richard Brooks

Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph’s parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

Clerks (1994)

21 Feb

92m; U.S.

Director: Kevin Smith

Cast: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti

Synopsis (IMDB): A  day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Service Workers

 
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