"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- tmdb91242875on TMDB · Feb 20187/10
A serious role for Pryor with a good cast and a message that should hit home for any ordinary working man. Well worth the watch.
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Cast
- Richard PryorEzekiel 'Zeke' Brown
- Harvey KeitelJerry Bartowski
- Yaphet KottoSam 'Smokey' James
- Ed Begley Jr.Bobby Joe
- Harry BellaverEddie Johnson
- George MemmoliJenkins
- Lucy SaroyanArlene Bartowski
- Lane SmithClarence Hill
- Cliff DeYoungJohn Burrows
- Borah SilverDogshit Miller
Crew
- Paul SchraderDirector
- Paul SchraderScreenplay
- Leonard SchraderScreenplay
- Bobby ByrneDirector of Photography
- Jack NitzscheOriginal Music Composer
- Tom RolfEditor
- Don GuestProducer
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