{"id":8187,"date":"2024-11-12T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2024-11-12T00:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:02:57","slug":"take-this-job-and-shove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/12\/take-this-job-and-shove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Take This Job and Shove It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Take This Job and Shove It <\/strong>(1981)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AVCO Embassy\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Gus Trikonis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Barry Schneider\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Billy Sherrill\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: James Devis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 24, 1981 (US)\/September 1981 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson, Eddie Albert, Penelope Milford, Charlie Rich, Art Carney, Martin Mull, Royal Dano, Fran Ryan, Joan Prather, James Karen, Virgil Frye, David Allan Coe, Lacy J. Dalton, Suzanne Kent, Johnny Paycheck.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $17.5M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The comedy Take This Job and Shove It<\/strong> is named for the popular 1977 country song by Johnny Paycheck (who cameos in the movie as \u201cMan with Hamburgers\u201d). There are a lot of young people out there who wouldn\u2019t know that. Then again, they\u2019ve probably never heard of the song or this movie either.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For whatever reason, Take This Job and Shove It<\/strong> didn\u2019t make into area theaters here in Philadelphia until September of \u201881, none of which were near me. Isn\u2019t it a form of false advertising when the announcer on the TV ads says \u201cstarting Friday at a theater near you\u201d and it doesn\u2019t? I finally saw it on cable in April \u201983. It left no impression whatsoever. I never watched it again until last week when I acquired a copy. I enjoyed it a lot more this time because I turned it on with zero expectations. It\u2019s actually pretty funny. It\u2019s a redneck comedy which means it has trucks, bars, country music, good old boys, at least one bar fight and a lot of beer which is fitting because the story centers on a brewery.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A corporate conglomerate acquires four financially struggling breweries including the Star Brewery in Dubuque, Iowa. The big boss (Albert, Green Acres) sends Frank Macklin (Hays, Airplane) to oversee operations at the brewery. It\u2019s no coincidence he\u2019s originally from there. Initially, his old friends and neighbors don\u2019t think he can revitalize the failing brewery. They\u2019re all scared of losing their jobs. The transition doesn\u2019t go smoothly. His reorganization results in machines taking over certain duties which means workers are reassigned to different jobs. Production does increase however, so much that the brewery is sold to a Texas oil millionaire (country singer Rich) who doesn\u2019t know the first thing about running a brewery.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Upon arriving, Frank reunites with old girlfriend J.M. (Hershey, The Entity) who handles loans at the local bank. Many townspeople are in debt and the prospect of the brewery closing causes great concern. In the midst of it all, Frank finds time to hang out with old friends Harry (Keith, An Officer and a Gentleman) and Ray (Thomerson, The Wrong Guys). At one point, they take part in a pick-up truck rally in a Bigfoot. Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m a guy, but I think that\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Take This Job and Shove It<\/strong> has a winning cast that includes Art Carney (The Honeymooners) as the brewery head, Martin Mull (Serial) as Hays\u2019 supervisor back at corporate headquarters and Fran Ryan (Quiet Cool) as a local hotel proprietor. Directed by Gus Trikonis (Nashville Girl, Touched by Love), it has more than its fair share of laughs. It\u2019s kind of a goofball take on Norma Rae. Hays is a likable leading man. The music is quite good. It\u2019s predictable, but not in a bad way. You know that the brewery employees will all come together at the end to take on the corporate bigwigs looking to put them out of work.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I never hear anybody mention Take This Job and Shove It<\/strong> when discussing 80s comedies. Maybe it\u2019s time to change that. It\u2019s a fun little movie that deserves more attention than it gets.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AVCO Embassy\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 100 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Gus Trikonis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Barry Schneider\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Billy Sherrill\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: James Devis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: April 24, 1981 (US)\/September 1981 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson, Eddie Albert, Penelope Milford, Charlie Rich, Art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-hidden-treasures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Take-This-Job-and-Shove-It-.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8370,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}