Spotswood ( The Efficiency Expert )

Spotswood (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Original Title: The Efficiency Expert
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Mark Joffe

Written By:
Max Dann and
Andrew Knight

Actors:
Anthony Hopkins ..... Errol Wallace
Ben Mendelsohn ..... Carey
Alwyn Kurts ..... Mr. Ball
Bruno Lawrence ..... Robert, Carey's Father
John Walton ..... Jerry Finn
Rebecca Rigg ..... Cheryl Ball
Toni Collette ..... Wendy Robinson
Russell Crowe ..... Kim Barry
Angela Punch McGregor ..... Caroline Wallace
Daniel Wyllie ..... Frank Fletcher
John Flaus ..... Gordon
Gary Adams ..... Kevin
Jeff Truman ..... Ron
Toni Lamond ..... Mrs. Lorna Ball
Jillian Murray ..... Ophelia, Carey's Mom

Synopsis:

Also released as Spotswood, The Efficiency Expert stars Anthony Hopkins as Wallace, a cold-blooded management consultant, infamous for radically 'downsizing' every firm he comes in contact with. Wallace's latest assignment is to streamline a small, family-owned shoe factory in Australia. As he gets to know the eccentric (and endearingly inefficient) factory workers, Wallace undergoes a slow-but-sure 'humanizing' process. Eventually realizing that he can simultaneously cut costs and preserve the dignity of the workers, he finds a way to modernize the operation without a single firing. In traditional fashion, the main story shares screen time with a romantic subplot involving the factory-owner's son and a female employee. Characterized by many critics as 'Capraesque,' The Efficiency Expert also bears trace of all those Ealing comedies of the 1950s.

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

A coldblooded management consultant, infamous for downsizing every firm he comes into contact with, re-examines his own morals and values when his latest assignment puts him face to face with those affected by such actions.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 14 June, 2006.

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