Blue Collar R
Whatever became of the American Dream?
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DVD Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel & Yaphet Kotto | |
Performer: | Ed Begley, Jr., Cliff De Young, Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan & Lane Smith | |
Directed by | Paul Schrader | |
Edited by | Tom Rolf | |
Composition by | Jack Nitzsche | |
Director of Photography: | Bobby Byrne |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A powerful, gritty, seamless profile....Paul Schrader's directorial debut is an artistic triumph...
Variety
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 ...
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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
...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
A dark-tinged prole caper, a crimson tableau of impotent wrath
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CinePassion
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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Film Frenzy
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.