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Robert Hays working in the office of a major brewery, is sent to his hometown's bottling plant to make some changes and increase production but reintegrates himself into his old ways with his friends that are all still there. I remember seeing this as a kid in the theatre with my mom, so it has some nostalgia points for that alone. This is a pretty decent little comedy, kind of a poor man's Gung Ho.
Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Art Carney and Eddie Albert are all also featured.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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"Take This Job and Shove It", was written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck, the only number one song Paycheck would ever have. Beyond Coe doing his own version, it was also covered by the Dead Kennedys, Canibus with Biz Markie and Chuck Barris and the Hollywood Cowboys during the last episode of The Gong Show.
Shot in Dubuque, Iowa at the Dubuque Star Brewery and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this is the very first movie to feature monster trucks. Bob Chandler's Bigfoot #1 is Ray's (Tim Thomerson) pick-up truck and Everett Jasmer's USA-1, called "Thunderin' Lightning," is also in the film.
Take This Job and Shove It is all about The Ellison Group, run by Sam Ellison (Eddie Albert), who buys up local businesses and makes them profitable by making them just like every other business. His two hatchetmen are Dick Ebersol* (Martin Mull) and Frank Macklin (Robert Hayes). Macklin usually goes well at assignments like this, but now he has to go back to his hometown and just might have to fire his childhood best friends.
This film has an amazing cast, with Art Carney as brewery owner Charlie Pickett and Barbara Hershey as Macklin's old girlfriend J.M. Halsted, plus David Keith, Royal Dano, James Karen, George Lindsey, Len Lasser, Penelope Milford and cameos for Charlie Rich, Coe and Paycheck.
Take This Job and Shove It was directed by Gus Trikonis, who knows all about making great drive-in and redneck movies like Supercock, Nashville Girl, The Sidehackers, Moonshine County Express and The Evil. It was written by Barry Schneider, who wrote another song-based film, Harper Valley P.T.A. (plus Ruby, Roller Boogie, Class of 1984, Cocaine: One Man's Seduction and Deadly Force, so great work Barry) and Jeffrey Bernini.
*This has to be no accident and a joke at the expense of the former chairman of NBC Sports and Saturday Night Live producer.
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02/06/23
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Perfect and the message never gets old.
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02/26/23
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Watchable film based on the country music hit where an up and coming executive is sent to his small hometown to be the hatchet man for the restructuring at the local brewery. The barroom football game was a bit ridiculous.
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02/13/23
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If I hadn't drank all the beer in the house on New Years Eve I should have been tossing a few back watching this while recuperating on the couch the next day. About a beer brewery Take This Job & Shove It w/ a red neck touch richly deserves it. In fact the songs 15 Beers & Beer Drinking Christians might just me a couple of drinking anthems for me. Would have been a bit better if it had stuck to being more comedy then drama because it loses its footing here & there but I had a lot of fun w/ it. It has a good cast especially David Keith & Tim Thomerson who I wish were a couple of guys that I worked w/ & could go & get pisses w/ after the work day was done. Oh how I would like to tell my boss to take this job & shove it drive off in my monster truck & drink some beer
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01/27/23
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A fun and very funny movie, which at the same time deals with real life social issues at the time too. It's an interesting movie, and I enjoyed it, but it could have been better.
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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