Blue Collar R

Whatever became of the American Dream?
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 2, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,268
Although the film does not tell us how to break out of the plantations we know too well, it does give us a vivid sense of the problems and the pitfalls of those who try. Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Jan 24, 2004
Rating: 3.5/4 -- The tragedy of Pryor's career is that Hollywood rarely knew how to use his phenomenal talents (The Toy? Really?), but here he lands one of his best roles. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Dec 21, 2019
A dark-tinged prole caper, a crimson tableau of impotent wrath Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 2, 2013
...The perfomances are excellent....The center of the film is...[Pryor who] for the first time makes use of the wit and fury that distinguish his straight comedy routines...
New York Times
Feb 10, 1977
Rating: B -- It's intense, well-acted, gives one a good idea about everyday factory life and offers a clear-sighted muckraking take on blue collar types ... Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 24, 2008
4 stars out of 5 -- [Pryor] is a revelation. His hangdog expression and impeccable timing mean he's as funny as ever....There are surprisingly delicate moments along the way, too...
Uncut
Feb 1, 2006
Rating: 4/4 -- It is an angry, radical movie about the vise that traps workers between big industry and big labor. It's also an enormously entertaining movie. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jun 15, 2018

Product Description:

In BLUE COLLAR, Paul Schrader's strong directorial debut, three assembly-line auto workers (Richard Pryor in one of his only serious dramatic roles, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) are equally angry and disenchanted at factory management and their own union. They are also, as the film reveals in long, detailed vignettes, struggling just to make ends meet. As they ruminate together on their dead-end jobs and the fears of a dead-end life, they eventually plan to burglarize their union's safe. The catch: Instead of finding cash as expected, they find ledgers documenting mob transactions. The relationship of the three friends is tested in the aftermath of this now-complex heist that was supposed to free the men from their torturous existence but instead has created more conflict in their lives. Pryor and Keitel are outstanding in this searing drama that looks at factory conditions and, more to the point, the condition of the male spirit when sacked with a hard, boring job that can barely support a family.

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