| Product Summary | | Publisher: MAC FILMWORKS, INC. | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00879431000053 | | Buy.com Sku: 203389181 | | Item#: V2FQWP | | Category Keywords: Romance | | Rating: NR |
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| | | Academy Award Winner Anthony Hopkins.
Features: DVD
An up-tight manager (Anthony Hopkins) tries to make a bunch of cuckoos run a factory like clockwork.
"...a quaint, gratifying little film about discovering/rediscovering true, basic human needs..." Pamela Bruce, Austin Chronicle
"A comedic gem." Stephen Farber, MovieLine
Editor's Note
Can a bunch of cuckoos run a factory like clockwork? The efficiency expert finds out when he comes to the rescue of a cash-poor, family-run footware factory.
Plot Summary
During the Sixties, a troubled British efficiency expert travels to Spotswood, a suburban Australian town, in order to improve productivity at an ailing moccasin factory. The company is owned by a sweet-natured old man who values his workers' happiness over bottom line profits, and as a result, he's quickly going out of business; only by selling off pieces of property over the last few years has he been able to show a profit. After making his observations, the visiting expert recommends sacking a great many of the employees in order to keep the company afloat. The owner reluctantly agrees and starts filling out pink slips, but the outsider begins to doubt his evaluations as he gets better acquainted with the friendly, fun-loving workers. He comes to realize that his decisions may be based on the manipulation of cold, hard figures -- but they affect the everyday lives of real human beings.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MAC FILMWORKS, INC. |
| Release Date: 1/16/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 00005 | | UPC: 00879431000053 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "People need to make things." ---- Mr. Ball (Alwyn Kurts) |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
There is a precision in the way Anthony Hopkins presents himself, a crisp manner of speech combined with a certain formality of expression, that can make him seem fearsome ("Silence of the Lambs") or hidden ("Howard's End") or, in a new film named "The Efficiency Expert," somehow needy. He plays a man who advises others how to plan their lives, yet who hasn't a clue about his own...It's interesting, the way Hopkins' face relaxes as the movie continues and his character learns, perhaps for the first time, that time and motion studies are about people, not facts. - Roger Ebert
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