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Category Archives: Romance

Days and Clouds (2008)

21 Feb

115m; Italy

Director: Silvio Soldini

Synopsis: Well-to-do, sophisticated Italian couple face upheavals when the husband is fired by the company he founded. Exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, the husband lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy and the growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they part will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them.

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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Drama, Romance, White Collar, Working Class

 

Desk Set (1957)

21 Feb

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.

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Comedy, Entertainment Industry, Romance, White Collar

 

Bread and Roses (2000)

25 Jan

110m; U.S.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo

Synopsis (IMDB): Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

 

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Posted by on January 25, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Organizing, Romance, Service Workers, Women

 

A La Place Du Coeur (1998)

24 Jan

113m; France

Director: Robert Guediguian

love & struggle in a ethnic working class neighborhood in Marseilles

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in Drama, Romance

 

Office Space (1999)

12 Jan

89m; US

Director: Mike Judge

Writers: Mike Judge (Milton animated shorts), Mike Judge (screenplay)

Cast: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston and David Herman

Synopsis (IMDB): In the Initech office, the insecure Peter Gibbons hates his job and the abusive Division VP Bill Lunbergh that has just hired two consultants to downsize the company. His best friends are the software engineers Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar that also hate Initech, and his next door neighbor Lawrence. His girlfriend Annie is cheating on him but she convinces Peter to visit the hypnotherapist Dr. Swanson. Peter tells how miserable his life is and Dr. Swanson hypnotizes him and he goes into a state of ecstasy. However, Dr. Swanson dies immediately after giving the hypnotic suggestion to Peter. He dates the waitress Joanna and changes his attitude in the company, being promoted by the consultants. When he discovers that Michael and Samir will be fired, they decide to plant a virus in the account system to embezzle fraction of cents in each financial operation into Peter’s account..

 

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Big Business/Corporations, Comedy, Romance, Technology, White Collar

 

Outsourced (2006)

12 Jan

103m; US

Director: John Jeffcoat

Writers: George Wing, John Jeffcoat

Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker and Asif Basra

Outsourced is a modern day comedy of cross-cultural conflict and romance. Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) spends his days managing a customer call center in Seattle until his job, along with those of the entire office, are outsourced to India. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to train his new replacement. As he navigates through the chaos of Bombay and an office paralyzed by constant cultural misunderstandings, Todd yearns to return to the comforts of home. But it is through his team of quirky yet likable Indian call center workers, including his friendly and motivated replacement, Puro (Asif Basra), and the charming, opinionated Asha (Ayesha Dharker), that Todd realizes that he too has a lot to learn – not only about India and America, but about himself. He soon discovers that being outsourced may be the best thing that ever happened to him. (Shadowcatcher Entertainment)

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Posted by on January 12, 2012 in A: Highly Recommended Labor Films, Comedy, Outsourcing, Romance

 

New in Town (2009)

06 Nov

97m; US
Director: Jonas Elmer
Writers: Ken Rance, C. Jay Cox
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr. and Siobhan Fallon

A high-powered consultant (Renée Zellweger) in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to New Ulm, Minnesota, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. After enduring a frosty reception from the locals, icy roads and freezing weather, she warms up to the small town’s charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she’s ordered to close down the plant and put the entire community out of work, she’s forced to reconsider her goals and priorities, and finds a way to save the town.

 

 
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Posted by on November 6, 2011 in Comedy, Romance, Women, Working Class

 

Rosie the Riveter (1944)

06 Nov

75m; US
Director: Joseph Santley
Writers: Dorothy Curnow Handley (story), Jack Townley (screenplay), and 1 more credit »
Stars: Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson and Barbara Jo Allen

In wartime 1944 in California,defense plant workers Rosalind “Rosie” Warren and her friend Vera Watson must share, on a rotating schedule, the town’s last available rental-room with Charlie Doran and Kelly Kennedy, who work the other shift at the plant. The landlady, Grandma Quill , also has her grandchildren, Buzz Prouty and Mabel Prouty , and her daughter Stella Prouty —who is on the outs with her husband Clem —living with her. Rosie doesn’t tell her fiancé, Wayne Calhoun, about the living arrangements, and is also plotting with Vera to re-unite the Proutys. Rosie pawns the engagement ring Wayne gave her for money for Clem and Stella. Rosie and Charlie fall in love and get their picture in the paper. Wayne huffingly breaks the engagement and wants his ring returned. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> IMDB

 
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Posted by on November 6, 2011 in Comedy, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Romance, Women

 

The Apartment (1960)

06 Nov

120m; US
Dir: Billy Wilder
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

 
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Posted by on November 6, 2011 in Comedy, Romance, White Collar

 
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