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Category Archives: Genre
Sisters Of Philadelphia (2006)
11m; U.S.
Director: K. S. Haskey
Synopsis: Women in the Carpenters Union. Women in non-traditional work.
Contact: K S Haskey PO Box 154 Pedricktown, NJ 08067 ksmh@dandy.net 856-299-7914 301-395-7923 Ksmh@dandy.ne
Sit Down and Fight: Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers Union (1992)
55m; U.S.
Director: Charlotte Mitchell Zwerin
Synopsis: Chronicles the sit-down strikes that led to the growth of the United Auto Workers and the Reuther brothers rise to prominence.
Contact: PBS; WVLC has a VHS copy
Slap Shot (1977)
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.
The Sleep Dealer (2008)
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
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…
Slim (1937)
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.
Smoke Eaters (1926)
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
Smoking Room (2002)
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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