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6.9/10   1,149 votes
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Director:
Ken Loach
Writer:
Rob Dawber (writer)
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Release Date:
16 November 2001 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
workers are going to be variable costs more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dean Andrews ... John
Thomas Craig ... Mick (as Tom Craig)
Joe Duttine ... Paul
Steve Huison ... Jim
Venn Tracey ... Gerry
Andy Swallow ... Len
Sean Glenn ... Harpic
Charlie Brown ... Jack
Juliet Bates ... Fiona
John Aston ... Bill Walters
Graham Heptinstall ... Owen
Angela Forrest ... Tracy (as Angela Saville)
Clare McSwain ... Lisa
Megan Topham ... Chloe
Abigail Pearson ... Eve
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Geschichten von den Gleisen (Germany)
La cuadrilla (Spain)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some sexuality.
Runtime:
96 min
Country:
UK | Germany | Spain
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Australia:M | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:6 | Netherlands:AL | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:15 | USA:R
Company:
Alta Films more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
[Harpic is reading a briefing to his staff about the new rules under privatization]
Harpic: Oh, now listen, now this really *is* important: "Deaths must be kept to an acceptable level".
Gerry: What's "an acceptable level"?
Harpic: Er, "two a year".
Gerry: But nobody's been killed for the past eighteen months.
Jim: Any volunteers?
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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
workers are going to be variable costs, 3 May 2005
6/10
Author: Furuya Shiro from Kumamoto, Japan

Saying frankly, I did not enjoy, nor being moved by the movie. The story is neither dramatic nor exciting. The lead character is not well defined and thus easy to confuse the audience. After watching it, being little bit disappointed, I went out to walk my dog, but the movie occupied my thought even after I came home. This is a story in railway workers in the UK, however I could see similar situation in Japan too. In Japan, many companies are gradually recovering from serious downfall. But during the process of profit recovery, companies have replaced fixed-cost employees by variable cost contract workers. As a result, the lifetime employment system has collapsed, and the power of the unions, the members of which are employees only, have been eroding. At the same time, number of contract workers, who do not have systematic training and skills building, has increased. In this trend the gap between peoples of high wages and low wages are becoming wider. British society has been many years the forerunner in the world of winning the rights of workers. But these rights are now too easily forgotten under the pressure of global economy. This is a social crisis in longer term. At least this movie has succeeded to portray this crisis.

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