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Somers Town (2008)

07 May

71m; U.K.

Director: Shane Meadows

Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Ireneusz Czop and Piotr Jagiello

Synopsis: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a Polish immigrant, lives in the district of Somers Town, between King’s Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link. When Marek agrees to let homeless Tomo move into his room, unbeknownst to his father, the pair forms a strong bond, as they work odd jobs for an eccentric neighbor and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful young French waitress whom they are both infatuated with. But it’s only a matter of time before Marek’s dad discovers what’s going on…

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Romance, Working Class

 

Strikebreakers

07 May

2:46m; U.S.

Director: Michael Moore

Synopsis: Comic vignette from Michael Moore’s TV show The Awful Truth.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy

 

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Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

07 May

90m; U.S.

Director: Preston Sturges

Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake and Robert Warwick

Synopsis (IMDB): Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in tramp’s clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand, and gets some reality shock.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Entertainment Industry, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

Swimming With Sharks (1994)

07 May

101m; U.S.

Director: George Huang

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley and Michelle Forbes

Synopsis: A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel. But soon things turn around when the young executive kidnaps his boss and visits all the cruelties back on him.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Crime-Action, Drama, Entertainment Industry, White Collar

 

Swing Shift (1984)

07 May

100m; U.S.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Christine Lahti

Synopsis (IMDB): In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way to whom she hadn’t previously been all that nice. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers able to ride the jibes of the male workforce. As the war drags on Kay finally goes on a date with her trumpet playing foreman and life inevitably starts to get complicated.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, War, Working Class

 

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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

07 May

Director: Gus TrikonisTakeThisJobShoveIt

Cast: Robert Hays, Art Carney and Barbara Hershey

Synopsis (IMDB): The “Alison Group” has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Franck Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them – the one which happens to be the main company in his home town. At first his old buddies are reluctant to have him as new boss, but since he can’t save all of them from the severe changes, the climate soon changes. Then he learns that he increased the profit so much, that the his bosses have decided to resell his brewery profitably to an incompetent Texas oil millionaire…

 
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Teachers (1984)

07 May

107m; U.S.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Cast: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams and Judd Hirsch, Morgan Freeman, Laura Dern

Synopsis (IMDB): A teacher overcomes his frustration in a high-school full of flunkies. As he attempts to educate his students, his attempts to help them gets him into trouble with the school board, which only adds to his problems. With the support of his students he beats the school board and his frustration.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Education, Public Sector

 

The Best Typist in the World (El Mejor Mecanógrafo del Mundo) (2005)

07 May

18m
Director: Rafa Piqueras

Since he was a child, Ernesto Casanova always knew that he would be the best typist in the World. We’re in the 70’s, he’s 35 years old and he works for a lawyer’s office as a typist. He’s secretly in love with the office’s secretary. Life flows in a pleasent routine, but one day, Mr. Robledo, the boss, decides to introduce the technologic renovation in the office and he buy a new computer. Casanova thinks that this is the end.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Automation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, White Collar

 

The Boss of it All (2006)

07 May

99m; Denmark

Director: Lars von Trier

Cast: Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler and Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Synopsis: “It’s a comedy and harmless,” is how Von Trier introduces this film, described by one reviewer as “ ‘The Office’ Viewed Through the Looking Glass.” In this dark satire, filmed entirely in an office, an out-of-work actor, hired by the director of a Danish IT company to impersonate its non-existent CEO, bumbles through meetings with senior employees and negotiations with an Icelandic businessman who wants to buy the firm. The film’s off-kilter visual style (a computer randomly determined when to tilt, pan or zoom the camera) works in the film’s favor, uncannily echoing the nonsense and frustration of our everyday lives. (Rochester Labor Film Series 2010)

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Unemployment-Wages, White Collar

 

The Replacements (2000)

26 Apr

118m; U.S.

Director: Howard Deutch

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman and Brooke Langton

Synopsis (IMDB): A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players’ strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the “scab” who replaces the star QB.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Comedy, Sports, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 
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