"Working Man" is the kind of movie that used to be common but that has largely vanished in the United States, along with the world it portrays. But this is less of a cry of rage or a depressed lament than a borderline fable, focusing on the spirit of people whose skills are no longer needed or appreciated in the new economy. Once the movie shifts gears, it's less about the working man and more about the human.
Veteran character actor Peter Gerety has a meaty role in Richard Jury's "Working Man" even as the movie shifts from quiet dignity into melodrama. Review: Indie drama 'Working Man' veers off course. With Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire, Michael Brunlieb.
When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. That sounds like a good thing, but the further Working Man creeps into emotionally over-calibrated basic cable territory, the less real it feels. Read full review 'Working Man': Film Review Writer/director Robert Jury begins his Working Man as a subtle, low-key drama about a man who loses his job when the factory closes and, despite that, just keeps going to work. It's the sort of allegorical premise that says a lot without the characters saying a word. Those characters do start talking and acting in far more obvious ways, and Jury's debut movie ends up losing almost all of its.
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Certainly the new film Working Man wasn't intended to be released at a time when unemployment is at or approaching its highest level since perhaps the Great Depression. Adolfi and starring George Arliss and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T.
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