Blue Collar Movie Review 1978

Funnyman Pryor (in one of his best film roles) offers most of the laughs in this very serious drama of how three Detroit auto assembly workers (Pryor, Kotto, and Keitel), feeling the strain of family life and inflation, hatch a plan to rob their corrupt union office only to stumble into a bigger crime that later costs them dearly. Schrader makes his directorial debut in this searing study of the working class and the robbing of the human spirit, which is made memorable by the strong performances of its three leads. Filmed entirely in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 114 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Rebel With a Cause, Labor & Unions, African America, Family Ties, Urban Comedy

Screenplay

Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader

Cast

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley, Lane Smith, Cliff DeYoung

Cinematography

Bobby Byrne

Director

Paul Schrader

Music

Jack Nitzsche

Other

Tom Rolf

Producer

Mark Huffam