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Hostile Takeover (1988)
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A Man on the Edge Has Nothing to Lose.Plot:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands. | add synopsisAwards:
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(Complete credited cast) | David Warner | ... | Eugene Brackin |
 | Michael Ironside | ... | Larry Gaylord |
 | Kate Vernon | ... | Sally |
 | Jayne Eastwood | ... | Joan Talmage |
 | Will Lyman | ... | Smolen |
| Graeme Campbell | ... | Hollis |
| Anthony Sherwood | ... | Garlas |
 | John Vernon | ... | Mayor |
| Patrick Patterson | ... | Security Guard |
| Winston Gaddishaw | ... | Marksman |
| Helen Beavis | ... | Mrs. Hampton |
| Cindy Girling | ... | Mrs. Gaylord |
| Kenneth McGregor | ... | Cop #1 (as Ken McGregor) |
| François Klanfer | ... | NY Boss |
| Rex Hagon | ... | V.P. of Felton |
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Manoeuvre hostile (Canada: French title)The Devastator (USA) (video box title)
The Office Party (Canada: English title)
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I saw the film on cable one day and it still stays with me a little. Sure, everything was under produced, the lighting dark, and the overall acting, story, and dialogue incoherent in many places, and the story has a whole depressing. However, maybe that's how the story was suppose to take place as seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Eugene. Eugene is the typical quiet man in suspenders who finally has enough of his sad, lonely life and takes people three people to be hostage just to be heard by someone who gives a damn. His exact reasons are never explained just alluded to in one scene, but watch how Sally and he begin an honest relationship that ends perhaps as it should. Also note Jayne Eastwood's performance as an older woman with scars of her own. All very strange, but it all fits its own logic.