Veteran character actor Peter Gerety has a meaty role in Richard Jury's 'Working Man' even as the movie shifts from quiet dignity into melodrama.
Talia Shire has a new release, ‘Working Man,’ that she calls a powerful film that ‘spoke to my soul.’
In a small Rust Belt town , Gerety’s Allery Parkes and his coworkers lose their jobs at New Liberty Plastics. Allery, however, reports to the shuttered plant each day and finding the power turned off, sets himself to cleaning the machinery. He stubbornly sticks to his routine, taking his morning coffee break, eating his lunch alone in the staff room, before shuffling home at the end of the day.
The question of why recedes into the background after several twists take the story in other directions, only to return as part of an ending that ties things up a little too neatly. Those turning points forefront Allery’s colleague Walter, played by, a charismatic figure who proves to be the fulcrum upon whom these events hinge, but cost the movie some of its well-earned authenticity.
Once the movie shifts gears, it’s less about the working man and more about the human. That sounds like a good thing, but the further “Working Man” creeps into emotionally over-calibrated basic cable territory, the less real it feels.
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