1986 · comedy · workplace · satire
Gung Ho
Directed by Ron Howard1h 51m1986
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.
Our read: Gung Ho (1986) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · workplace · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / workplace, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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