Blue Collar (1978)

Directors

Paul Schrader

Cast

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, Lucy Saroyan, George Memmoli, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Harry Northup, Sammy Warren, Jimmy Martinez, Steve Butts, Stacey Baldwin, Ava Singleton, Eddie Singleton, Davone Florence, Stephen P. Dunn

The story

A trio of Wayne County, Michigan, auto workers, two black—32-year-old Ezekiel "Zeke" Brown from Detroit, Michigan, and two-time ex-convict, 35-year-old Sam "Smokey" James from Mississippi, who spent time in Michigan State Prison—and one 33-year-old white, a Polish-American from Hamtramck, Michigan, Jerry Bartowski are fed up with their mistreatment at the hands of both management and the union brass. Smokey is in debt to a loan shark over a numbers game, Jerry works a second job as a gas station attendant to get by and finds himself unable to pay bills including the orthodontics work that his daughter needs, and Zeke is in trouble with…

Genres

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