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      The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

      TV-14 2009 40m Documentary List
      Reviews 58% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Stunned workers look back on their careers at a General Motors plant after the company announces its closure. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jul 22 Buy Now

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      Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site The Last Truck captures a social tragedy, the destruction of hopes and lives in the naked pursuit of profit. Aug 6, 2020 Full Review Sarah Boslaugh Playback:stl ... structured like a mystery that starts with the conclusion and then works backwards in flashbacks to show how it got there. Rated: 6/10 Oct 29, 2010 Full Review Phil Hall Film Threat An intelligent and heartbreaking record of the human wreckage left behind in the decline and disappearance of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Rated: 4/5 Aug 14, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A glimpse into America's de-industrialization thru the eyes of these workers . . . their faces are no longer "just a number" attached to corporate down-sizing. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This documentary films the story of the closing of the huge GM truck plant near Dayton, Ohio, and the effect it had on the thousands of employees who were laid off. The story is told by the workers, the unsettling fate etched on every single one of their faces. Whilst this is a sad tale, the bigger picture is never really addressed, like why GM remained strangely committed to vehicles that were no longer selling. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member A heartbreaking look inside the death of GM as seen through the eyes of a number of employees working for a closing factory. That these honest people have to lose their jobs and rebuild themselves and their lives while CEOs sit by and cash their bonus checks from the bailout is sickening. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Short but bittersweet documentary about the closing of a GM plant in Ohio. It's sad but true that the days of being with the same employer for 25-30 years and retiring with them are fading fast. When a closing on this scale occurs in a town that relies on a plant of this size as it's chief employer, the effects are felt for years and years to come (see Flint). Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Oscar-nominated documentary short about the closing of the Moraine GM Plant in Dayton, Ohio. Told entirely from the perspectives of the workers of the plant days and weeks prior to the inevitable closure. The views and opinions may not always be accurate, but this is not necessarily the point of the film. It is very much concerned about the community and family that has been created as a result of the plant. The film also does try to debunk some of the popular thought about why the plants closed. The Last Truck is most definitely worth seeing as a time capsule of a generation of people that is seemingly disappearing from the American landscape. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Good doc showing the cost of the decline of auto manufacturing from the worker's point of view. Does not make any real attempt to explain how or why but does imply unions are NOT at fault when clearly that is a big chunk of it. Points out that pensioners outnumber active workers by four to one. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Stunned workers look back on their careers at a General Motors plant after the company announces its closure.
      Director
      Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
      Producer
      Sheila Nevins
      Screenwriter
      Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
      Production Co
      Home Box Office (HBO)
      Rating
      TV-14
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 16, 2014
      Runtime
      40m
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