Take This Job and Shove It (film)

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Take This Job and Shove It
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 Flag of the United States 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.

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