Rent Blue Collar (1978)
3.7 of 5 from 130 ratings
1h 49min
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- Synopsis:
- Life on the assembly line stinks. Glue the windshield...One car a minute. 55 an hour. 220,000 a year. The pay is lousy. The union is crooked. Life is an endless list of unpaid bills. And now, three workers are plotting the ultimate heist to set themselves free.
- Actors:
- Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Harry Northup, Leonard Gaines, Milton Selzer, Sammy Warren, Jimmy Martinez, Jerry Dahlmann, Denny Arnold, Rock Riddle, Stacey Baldwin
- Directors:
- Paul Schrader
- Producers:
- Don Guest
- Writers:
- Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Heist Movies: Masterminds and Mavericks, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 1
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/01/2018
- Run Time:
- 114 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with writer-director Paul Schrader and author Maitland McDonagh
- Paul Schrader BFI Masterclass (1982, 106 mins): the filmmaker presents a fascinating summary of the many issues and ideas he explores in his screenwriting class, recorded at the National Film Theatre, London
- 'Visions'; Interview with Paul Schrader (1982): archival interview, presented in two versions - the broadcast cut with its original Tony Rayns introduction (21 mins), and the complete interview rushes with a newly recorded introduction by Tony Rayns (58 mins)
- Keith Gordon on 'Blue Collar' (2018, 12 mins): a new filmed appreciation by the filmmaker and actor
- Original theatrical trailer
- Josh Olson trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): a short critical appreciation
- Image gallery: a collection of on-set photography, promotional stills and poster artwork
- UK Blu-ray Premiere
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Reviews (2) of Blue Collar
Union Jacked - Blue Collar review by griggs
Why didn't anyone tell me Blue Collar was this bloody good?
Three Detroit car workers, skint and sick of the assembly line, decide to rob their own union. The safe yields a few hundred dollars and a ledger of dodgy loans worth far more. That's roughly when the laughing stops. Paul Schrader's debut starts as a shop-floor comedy and gradually tightens the bolts until it's a proper paranoid thriller.
Richard Pryor is terrific, still cracking wise while something angrier simmers underneath. Harvey Keitel looks like a man one overdue bill away from snapping. Yaphet Kotto has more sense than the other two put together, and plays it beautifully.
Even the factory seems to hold a grudge, all clanging metal and grinding repetition. The politics land hard too: management has the workers over a barrel, and the union seems to have borrowed it. The final freeze-frame spells the message out a touch loudly, though I can forgive a film this angry for raising its voice.
Pryor and Keitel get the headlines. Kotto deserves a pay rise.
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Still valid - Blue Collar review by Popeyethetim
Thought it was good when I first saw it. STILL looks good and is up there. Keitel is excellent. Notable for the way things break down and how they get control. Its a good movie
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