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10 February 1978 (USA) moreTagline:
Whatever became of the "American Dream"?Plot:
Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Tough moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Pryor | ... | Zeke Brown |
 | Harvey Keitel | ... | Jerry Bartowski |
 | Yaphet Kotto | ... | Smokey James |
 | Ed Begley Jr. | ... | Bobby Joe |
| Harry Bellaver | ... | Eddie Johnson Union President AAW Local 291 |
| George Memmoli | ... | Jenkins |
| Lucy Saroyan | ... | Arlene Bartowski |
 | Lane Smith | ... | Clarence Hill, Union Steward |
 | Cliff De Young | ... | John Burrows |
| Borah Silver | ... | Dogshit Miller, Foreman |
| Chip Fields | ... | Caroline Brown |
 | Harry Northup | ... | Hank |
| Leonard Gaines | ... | Mr. Bird, I.R.S. Man |
| Milton Selzer | ... | Sumabitch |
| Sammy Warren | ... | Barney |
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Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (original rating) | UK:18 | USA:R | Iceland:12MOVIEmeter: 
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Zeke Brown: [just before the union break-in] Maybe we should've robbed a liquor store like everybody else. moreSoundtrack:
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Three workers in a car plant take it onto themselves to rob the safe of their Union office. They come away with only $600 but they find themselves with information that they can use to blackmail the union. However the union plans to kill the men and turn them against each other.
From the writer of Taxi Driver comes this tough little social piece about how the working man is screwed by the `system'. The plot follows three men trying to make out (admittedly illegally) and the way the system uses them against each other etc to shut them up. The plot is very clever and the writing is superb.
Pryor is great – he could have been his comedy self but his acting is really sublime. Likewise Keitel and Kotto are on top form and the support from Begley et al is really good. The film will engross you and the final shot and line will stay with you for years.
Overall – an underrated classic that deserves as many viewers as possible.