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Situations Vacant

97m; Ireland

Director: Lisa Mulcahy

Cast: Diarmuid Noyes, Lynette Callaghan and Martha Christie

Synopsis: 20-something, recent business graduate Dave is in the middle of a full-blown quarter life crisis. By now Dave thought he’d be living the corporate high life by day and loving a babe in a penthouse by night. But the boom’s bust. So instead, Dave’s living with his Ma, terrorised by his creepy Dole Inspector and seriously considering a career in plastic pellet packing…. Dave’s mates, Tom and Vinny are no better off. Tom’s got serious medical worries re his tackle and Vinny’s painting walls for auld ones at the rate of a fiver an hour. So when a codger down their local claims all they need do is “follow the 2 pint plan – drink 2 pints, then lie!” the lads decide they’ve nothing to lose. They down the pints and move swiftly onto telling the lies, big lies, lies that somehow, strangely seem to pay off…. Suddenly Dave and his mates are “living the dream”. Right up until the moment when the first lie starts to unravel, then the next….then the next…

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Drama, White Collar

Slap Shot (1977)

07 May

123m; U.S.

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: Reg Dunbar (Paul Newman) is an aging player/coach for minor-league hockey team the Charleston Chiefs. His team is dead last in the Federal League, his players mostly a bunch of losers who dream of landing a job at an auto plant when their career is over. Newman battles the owner to pull the team together.

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Sports

The Sleep Dealer (2008)

07 May

90m; Mexico

Director: Alex Rivera

Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela and Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Mexican man from the provinces whose family and home are destroyed by terrorist-seeking drones goes to Tijuana, where he joins a workforce of illegal workers whose labor is transported electronically across the border.

Contact: alex@alexrivera.com http://sleepdealer.com/ Alex Rivera 611 Broadway, #836 NY NY 10012

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Automation, Migrant workers, SciFi, Technology

Slim (1937)

07 May

85m; U.S.

Director: Ray Enright

Cast: Pat O’Brien, Henry Fonda and Stuart Erwin

Synopsis (IMDB): A veteran lineman takes an awe-struck young farmer under his wing, but problems arise when he introduces him to his occasional girlfriend, a pretty nurse.

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Construction Trades, Drama, Romance, Working Class

Smithfield Workers: Yes We Can! (2008)

07 May

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Organizing

Tags: Food Service Industry

Smoking Room (2002)

07 May

92m

Director: Roger Gual and Julio D. Wallovits

Cast: Miguel Ángel González, Francesc Orella and Francesc Garrido

Synopsis (IMDB): A combative office-worker is recollecting signatures. People are not allowed to smoke in the building, so he wants to ask the bosses to habilitate a smoking room. It seems logical and his colleagues praise the initiative. But actually what comes next reveals the fierce individualism, selfishness and cowardice that each one hide under their white collar.

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, White Collar

Soldiers of the Rock (2003)

07 May

94m; South Africa

Director: Norman Maake

Cast: Vuyo Dabula, Lebo Mathosa and Glen Gabela

Synopsis ( Variety): “A South African gold mining crew struggles with cultural pride, internecine friction and constant danger in the bracing, socially-conscious actioner “Soldiers of the Rock.” Despite overly-ambitious plotting, novelty of milieu and gritty action set pieces will earn pic fest play and distrib interest, with genre elements a good draw in ancillary . . . Seemingly inspired by both Ken Loach and Michael Bay.”

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Crime-Action

Tags: Mining

Smoke Eaters (1926)

07 May

Director – C.J. Hunt
Running Time: 64 Minutes

Befitting its title, The Smoke Eaters is a fire-fighting melodrama, albeit one of little distinction. After a protracted prologue in which a fireman loses his wife and child to a conflagration, the story jumps ahead 20 years to concentrate on the romance between “smoke-eater” Cullen Landis and Wanda Hawley. Tieing past and present together is the fact that Landis is the adopted son of the selfsame firefighter who lost his family years before. The plot is forgotten as the hero proves that he’s as worthy a fireman as his foster father by staging a spectacular climactic rescue from a burning nightclub. While the fire scenes are reasonably well done, it was painfully obvious to the viewer that star Cullen Landis was never really anywhere near the flames. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Drama

Tags: Police/Fire

The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)

07 May

99m; U.S.

Director: Richard Quine

Cast: Judy Holliday, John Williams and Paul Douglas

Synopsis (IMDB): Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations. These are not the questions which the board expected to be asked of them, especially since they are all crooked, except for Edward McKeever, the current CEO who has resigned in order to take an advisory position at the Pentagon. Following the meeting, he bumps into Laura and offers to drive her home. On the way there, Laura displays her enthusiasm for being a stockholder, as a result, Edward takes a liking to her. With Edward in Washington, John Blessington and Clifford Snell establish their hold on International Projects – They see greater riches now that Edward has influence with the US senate, especially with the awarding of federal contracts.

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Posted by Metro Council on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Finance, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Romance, White Collar