118m; Ireland
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne and Angeline Ball
Synopsis (IMDB): The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the “World’s Hardest Working Band,” The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
104m; Canada
Director: Dilip Mehta
Cast: Seema Biswas, Don McKellar and Lisa Ray
Synopsis: An unsuspecting Canadian couple in the Diplomatic Service posted in New Delhi & inherit a household headed by the wily & inspiring cook Stella.
95m; U.S.
Director: Sergio Arau
Synopsis: One day California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably disappeared, chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue. NOT SCREENED
12m; U.S.
Director: David Lindabury
Synopsis: Burned out by the grind of boring, anonymous jobs, Corey and Dale really need a day off. But with no vacation time left, and a mandatory sales meeting to attend, they need to find a temporary solution. Juan and Esteban have worked plenty of dirty jobs before, but nothing has prepared them for a day in the office. Can they survive the cubicles and conference rooms of corporate America?
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103m; U.S.
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Gig Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department.
109m; U.S.
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway,
Synopsis: A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city’s biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
92m; U.S.
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn
Synopsis: A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out labor agitators at his department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
85m; U.S.
Director: Douglas Horn
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Missi Pyle and Cedric Yarbrough
Synopsis: A 38-year old former chef starts all over again when he interviews for entry-level corporate jobs–and can’t get one.
92m; U.S.
Director: Mike Judge
Cast: Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Ben Affleck
Synopsis: Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him. There are labor issues — the plant workers try to form a union — but they’re incidental and the focus is primarily on the plan owner and his personal problems.
116m; U.S.
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis and Catalina Sandino Moreno
Synopsis: Fiction-film adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling book on the food system in the U.S. Health & safety risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.
Contact: Linklater’s production company: Detour Filmproduction Phone: 512-322-0031 Linklater’s assistant: Sara Greene sara@detourfilm.com Eric Schlosser (author) c/o Houghton Mifflin Company Trade Division Adult Editorial, 8th Floor 222 Berkeley St Boston, MA 02116-3764 USA
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