Blue Collar
Blue Collar

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Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night, when they steal away from their wives to have some fun, they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only six hundred dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some "hot" material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Blue Collar:

Richard Pryor
Harvey Keitel
Yaphet Kotto
Ed Begley Jr.
Harry Bellaver
George Memmoli

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Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night, when they steal away from their wives to have some fun, they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only six hundred dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some "hot" material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason for that is the union itself. All three are provoked by the fact that the union claims to have lost ten thousand dollars by their robbery.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertIt is an angry, radical movie about the vise that traps workers between big industry and big labor. It's also an enormously entertaining movie; it earns its comparison with On the Waterfront. And it's an extraordinary directing debut for Paul Schrader, whose credits include Taxi Driver and Rolling Thunder.
IndieWire - 10/10 by SergioPryor’s best film and his best performance and that’s not taking anything anyway from his co-stars Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto.
Newsweek - 9/10 by David AnsenPryor has a lot of funny moments in Blue Collar, especially in the first half or so, when the movie tends toward angry comedy.
Empire - 8/10 by William ThomasSuffused with the pessimism of Taxi Driver, Blue Collar is one of the most brutally honest films to have come out of 70s Hollywood.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatAlthough 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.
CinePassion - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceA dark-tinged prole caper, a crimson tableau of impotent wrath
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Ben SachsThe movie is affecting as a social portrait as well as a psychological drama.
Washington Post - 6/10 by Gary ArnoldIs Blue Collar an action film or a meditation upon the American Dream? I suspect it wants to be both though it's not very serious at being either.
User Review - 10/10 by Sean NOne of the best movies about the working class and in general that I've ever seen (the other being Barbara Koppel's documentary: 'Harlan County USA'). Schrader for some reason has remained tightly underrated throughout his entire career even though he contributed scripts to Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver', 'Last Temptation of Christ', and 'Raging Bull' and has taken upon directing precisely detailed and thought provoking films himself. But such like him are where (most of the time...all the time) you find some of the best works in cinema. Here, Schrader offers some of the best casting ever (and I mean EVER) with Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto (you know the black guy from 'Alien' and Richard Pryor (yes, he's funny in this movie, not serious the whole time!) and sets them against a story of three working class friends who are fed up with the unfair, cruel and degrading conditions of their demanding factory job which in turn just barely pays them the means to survive and support their families. They stage a robbery of a safe at the main office, and they're successful until they find the safe is full of petty cash but something much more important: a notebook filled with pages and pages of numbers anf percentages. Eventually they uncover the corrupt practices of the very own union they've defended and worked for. The movie doesn't lighten up after the fact. It shows how not anyone or anything can bring down a corrupt system. Bonds of friendship are tested, and bought out by manipulation and the corrupt poweers that be go as far as murder to cover tracks. The working man, no matter how much stepped on, when fed up and no matter how of much of an advantage he has over the powers that be just can't win. If the rumored Criterion release is true, I can't wait!
User Review - 10/10 by Mark BIncisive, entertaining, maybe even timeless (itâ??s sure as hell still relevant today), this documents the woes and mischief of a trio of Detroit line workers as they uncover corruption in their union, and it's probably as good as anything I expect to see this year. Amazing that this was Schraderâ??s first film as it is arguably his finest. Pryor was never better.

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