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The Secret of My Success (1987)

13 Jun

111m; U.S.

Director: Herbert Ross

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater and Richard Jordan

Synopsis (IMDB): Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York. On his first work day in New York, he is fired in a hostile take-over and learns that jobs – and girls – are hard to get. When Brantley visits his distant uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company’s mail room. Then Brantley meets Christy Wills, who happens to be one of the top executives. Brantley sees how poorly the company is being run and decides to create a position under the name Carlton Whitfield, to influence and improve the company’s operations. Soon things get unexpectedly out of hand, not in the least because of his aunt, his girl and leading a double life.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, White Collar, Working Class

 

The Waiters (2006)

13 Jun

85m; U.S.

Director: Derik Wingo

Cast: Derik Wingo, Lorrainne Petersen and Scott Vogel

Synopsis: Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while “waiting” for their big break.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Entertainment Industry, Service Workers

 

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Tobacco Road (1941)

13 Jun

84m; U.S.

Director: John Ford

Cast: Charley Grapewin, Gene Tierney and Marjorie Rambeau

Synopsis (IMDB): Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of hillbilly stereotypes live in a rural backwater where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank’s plans to take over the land for more profitable farming; subplots involve the affairs and marriages of son Dude and daughter Ellie May.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Farm & Food, Romance, Working Class

 

The Toll (2006)

13 Jun

8m; U.S.

Director: J. Zachary Pike

Synopsis: ‘docu’-mentary about the Troll who collects the toll for crossing the bridge.

Contact: info@hatchling.com 603-436-0056 Found on 2007 Palm Springs Short Film Fest: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy

 

Trace of Stones (1966)

13 Jun

139m; East Germany

Director: Frank Beyer

Cast: Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska and Jutta Hoffmann

Synopsis (IMDB): Hannes Balla is the foreman of a group of building construction workers at the large construction site “Schkona” in the GDR. They spend most of their time working hard and drinking harder – to some they are fun, to some they are a public nuisance. Things get more complicated when the good-looking Kati Klee is employed as a young technician, and the ambitious new Party Secretary, Werner Horrath, aims to boost work efficiency and downsize Balla’s ego. Kati slowly warms up to Werner, but is also attracted to Balla’s nonconformity. A contemporary movie about work, love, and everything in between.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Construction Trades, Romance, Working Class

 

Trading Places (1983)

13 Jun

116m; U.S.

Director: John Landis

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis (IMDB): Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it’s a person’s environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe’s job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

 

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy, Finance, White Collar, Working Class

 

Turumba (1981)

13 Jun

95m; Philippines

Director: Kidlat Tahimik

Cast: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito and Maria Pehipol

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Comedy

 

Which Way Is Up? (1977)

13 Jun

94m; U.S.

Director: Michael Schultz

Cast: Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee and Margaret Avery

Synopsis (IMDB): Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker’s union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he is forced to leave his wife and family behind which also includes Leroy’s father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. Leroy ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife Annie Mae and Vanetta. When Leroy finds out that the Reverend Lenox Thomas (also played by Pryor) has got his wife pregnant while he was absent, he then make the moves on the reverend’s wife.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Blacks, Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Working Class

 

The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)

13 Jun

101m; Italy

Director: Lina Wertmüller

Cast: Tullio Solenghi, Gene Gnocchi and Veronica Pivetti

Synopsis (Amazon): It’s spontaneous combustion when Tunin meets Rossella at a victory rally the night of the hotly contested election. She’s a right wing pro-business zealot. He’s a leftist labor organizer whose libido shifts into overdrive the moment he sees the fiery Rossella. Tunin’s determined to seduce her, but Rossella conceives her own plan to deal with the self-centered Lothario. Only two obstacles stand in the way of a blissful union – their politics and his wife. Passion and politics run amok in this delightfully sexy farce, the latest from director Lina Wertmuller.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Collective Bargaining, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Organizing

 

Working Girl (1988)

13 Jun

113m; U.S.

Director: Mike Nichols

Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis (IMDB): Tess McGill is a frustrated secretary, struggling to forge ahead in the world of big business in New York. She gets her chance when her boss breaks her leg on a skiing holiday. McGill takes advantage of her absence to push ahead with her career. She teams up with investment broker Jack Trainer to work on a big deal. The situation is complicated after the return of her boss.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Comedy, Drama, Finance, Romance, Women

 
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