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Blue Collar

7.0

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Original title

Blue Collar

Year

1978

Running time

114 min.

Country

United States

Director

Paul Schrader

Screenwriter

Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader. Story: Sydney A. Glass

Cast

Music

Jack Nitzsche

Cinematography

Bobby Byrne

Producer

TAT Communications Company

Genre

Drama | Job/Employment. Heist Film. Crime. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers' union is doing them no greater good than their screwed-up bosses. So the trio pulls off a clumsy robbery at union HQ, in which they only gain access to some suspicious documents that point to union links with organized crime. Suddenly they're out of their league: violence, paranoia, rivalry, and recrimination erupt around them.

Awards: 1978: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Music Score

1978: Festival of Valladolid - Seminci: Silver Spike.

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Critics' reviews

"An extraordinary directing debut for Paul Schrader"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Paul Schrader's directorial debut is an artistic triumph"

Variety Staff: Variety
"Is Blue Collar an action film or a meditation upon the American Dream? I suspect it wants to be both though it's not very serious at being either."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Pryor’s best film and his best performance and that’s not taking anything anyway from his co-stars"

IndieWire
"The movie is affecting as a social portrait as well as a psychological drama"

Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
"Suffused with the pessimism of 'Taxi Driver', Blue Collar is one of the most brutally honest films to have come out of 70s Hollywood."

William Thomas: Empire

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Blue Collar

1978

Paul Schrader

7.0

(1,470)