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The Efficiency Expert (1991)
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Original name: Spotswood
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Style:
clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
business, family relations, downsizing, factory, family business, culture clash, fish out of water, intrigue, bus, big business, factory worker, employer employee relationship, misfit, love and romance, society, workplace romance, disorder, workplace, workplace situations, dancing, horse, police officer, train, police, storm ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: Australia
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Story:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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