Take This Job and Shove It (film)

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Take This Job and Shove It
Take This Job and Shove It movie poster
Directed by	Gus Trikonis
Produced by	Greg Blackwell
Written by	Jeffrey Bernini Barry Schneider
Starring	Robert Hays Art Carney Barbara Hershey
Music by	Billy Sherrill
Cinematography	James Devis
Editing by	Richard Belding
Distributed by	Avco Embassy Pictures (original distributor) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (current distributor)
Release date(s)	April 24, 1981
Running time	100 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
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Take This Job and Shove It is a 1981 film, starring Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, Art Carney, and David Keith, and directed by Gus Trikonis.

The film was named after a popular Country Western song, Take This Job and Shove It, which was written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck; both men had minor roles in the film.

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A corporate conglomerate called "The Alison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Alison to help reorganise one of the ailing beweries. The only thing, though, was that brewery was a major employer in his home town. Originally, his old friends, who were working at the brewery, gave him a cold welcome, as they thought he would be unable to revitalise the brewery. But when Frank informed them that the brewery was drowning in red ink, and that they may be losing their jobs soon, they welcomed him with open arms, and ramped up the brewery's sales and production. The brewery has improved so much, that The Alison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery -- or apparently -- running a business.