Gung Ho (1986)

Directed by

Ron Howard

Genre

comedy film, buddy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 219 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American car factory gets taken over by a Japanese company. The workers struggle to adjust to the new management's different ways. Michael Keaton plays the local manager trying to bridge the cultural gap.

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What happens

Gung Ho (released in Australia and New Zealand as Working Class Man) is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton. The story portrays the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title phrase is an Americanized Chinese term). A short-lived television series based on the film followed in December 1986. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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