Other labor-related movies worth watching, in strike solidarity:
Norma Rae
Matewan (starring Chris Cooper!)
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2007 7:24:38 pm PST #8662 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
BigDuluth - Dec 02, 2007 7:35:42 pm PST #8663 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Yeah... I'm a moron.
sumi - Dec 02, 2007 7:38:06 pm PST #8664 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, but Matewan and Norma Rae aren't musicals.
Consuela - Dec 02, 2007 7:56:24 pm PST #8665 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I missed that musical was a requirement. Oops?
Kristen - Dec 02, 2007 8:04:39 pm PST #8666 of 10001
Speaking of musicals, I am sad. I opened my front door to discover a letter on my doorstep. (I guess it ended up in the wrong mailbox and one of my neighbors left it for me.) It was one of those screening invites. To Sweeney Freaking Todd.
I could've seen Sweeney Todd today.
Bastards.
aurelia - Dec 02, 2007 8:16:41 pm PST #8667 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Sweeney Todd would've been sweet.
How many more musicals about the labour movement can you dig up Jesse?
Oooh, is there a filmed version of Rags?
Kristen - Dec 02, 2007 8:19:21 pm PST #8668 of 10001
I think it's going to be the first movie that gets me into a theater in...well, a very long time. I'm now trying to remember the last time I went to the movies.
ETA: God help me, I think it might've been Brokeback Mountain.
Allyson - Dec 02, 2007 8:39:20 pm PST #8669 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU
justkim - Dec 03, 2007 1:40:25 am PST #8670 of 10001
Another social casualty...
Don't forget The Pajama Game.
Plot synopsis from IMDB:
"Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! "
Plus Fosse choreography.
Theodosia - Dec 03, 2007 2:04:30 am PST #8671 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
May I also suggest Brassed Off which is a non-traditional brass-band-based musical?