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Take This Job and Shove It

 
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Take This Job and Shove It

  • Director: Gus Trikonis
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Comedy Drama
  • Movie Type: Workplace Comedy
  • Themes: Fighting the System
  • Main Cast: Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson
  • Release Year: 1981
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

Inspired by Johnny Paycheck's song of the same name, Take This Job and Shove It is a comedy/drama of big business vs. little guys. His corporate employers put Frank Maclin in charge of a project to shape up a newly acquired brewery. It just so happens that this places him back in his Iowa hometown after ten years of being away. He soon is faced with a dilemma and he must consider both his position with the company and the interests of the blue-collar employees. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

Cast

Martin Mull - Dick Ebersol; Eddie Albert - Samuel Ellison; Penelope Milford - Lenore Meade; David Allan Coe - Mooney; Lacy J. Dalton - Mrs. Mooney; Royal Dano - Beeber; Sharon Ernster - Doreen; Bruce M. Fischer - Jimmy; Virgil Frye - Cleach; Michael Genovese - Marvin; James Karen - Loomis; Suzanne Kent - Charmaine; Brenda King - Secretary; Len Lesser - Roach; George Lindsey - Semitruck Driver; Carole Mallory - B-Jo; Johnny Paycheck - Man with Hamburgers; Joan Prather - Madelene; Charlie Rich - Hooker; Fran Ryan - Mrs. Hinkle; Robert Swan - Virgil; David Selburg - Harvard Type

Credit

Jim Dultz - Art Director, Dorinda Rice Wood - Costume Designer, Gus Trikonis - Director, Richard Belding - Editor, Billy Sherrill - Composer (Music Score), James Devis - Cinematographer, Gregory S. Blackwell - Producer, J. David Marks - Producer, Jim Tanenbaum - Sound/Sound Designer, Barry Schneider - Screen Story, Barry Schneider - Screenwriter, Jeffrey Bernini - Screenwriter

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Take This Job and Shove It
Directed by Gus Trikonis
Produced by Greg Blackwell
Written by Jeffrey Bernini
Barry Schneider
Starring Robert Hays
Art Carney
Barbara Hershey
David Keith
Tim Thomerson
Martin Mull
Eddie Albert
Penelope Milford
David Allan Coe
Music by Billy Sherrill
Cinematography James Devis
Editing by Richard Belding
Distributed by Avco Embassy Pictures (original distributor)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (current distributor)
Release date(s) April 24, 1981
Running time 100 min.
Country  United States
Language English

Take This Job and Shove It is a 1981 film, starring Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, Art Carney, and David Keith, and directed by Gus Trikonis.

The film was named after a popular Country Western song, Take This Job and Shove It, which was written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck, both men had minor roles in the film.

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Plot summary

A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison to help reorganize one of the ailing breweries. The only thing, though, was that brewery was a major employer in his home town. Originally, his old friends, who were working at the brewery, gave him a cold welcome, as they thought he would be unable to revitalize the brewery. But when Frank informed them that the brewery was drowning in red ink, and that they may be losing their jobs soon, they welcomed him with open arms, and ramped up the brewery's sales and production. The brewery has improved so much, that The Ellison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery—or apparently—running a business. Most of the movie was shot in Dubuque, Iowa and the Dubuque Star Brewery.

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