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Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes39%
Metacritic48/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
221 audience votes
Key crew
- Babaloo MandelScreenplay
- Lowell GanzScreenplay
- Ron HowardDirector
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Michael KeatonHunt Stevenson
- Gedde WatanabeOishi Kazihiro
- George WendtBuster
- Mimi RogersAudrey
- John TurturroWillie
- So YamamuraMr. Sakamoto
- Sab ShimonoSaito
- Rick OvertonGoogie
- Clint HowardPaul
- Jihmi KennedyJunior
- Michelle JohnsonHeather DiStefano
- Rodney KageyamaIto
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Themes
factory workerfactoryworkerjapanpennsylvania, usaculture clashautomobile industrybusinessunemploymentauto industrycar factory