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Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Efficiency Expert |
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Errol Wallace (Hopkins) is an efficiency expert -- a management consultant who comes off a job downsizing a massive auto parts factory to evaluate a small shoe manufacturer. The owner, Mr. Ball (Kurts) wants to "modernize" somehow without actually cutting any jobs. Struck by a workplace that seems from an older time, Wallace quickly runs up against the real human lives his recommendations will hurt, and has to change his tune. This is a sweet, gentle comedy about working-class Australian lives.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Efficiency Expert |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- blue collar worker
- businessman, saving a faltering
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Australian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) fat
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
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