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| Spotswood [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Great Britain ] | ![Spotswood [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Great Britain ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N40XY113L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Mark Joffe
Studio: Hollywood DVD
Category: DVD
Buy New: $22.99
New (1) Used (1) from $22.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 66056
Format: Import, Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
UPC: 501763320195
EAN: 0501763320195
ASIN: B000BD1XMK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Great Britain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis:This Australian film 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. Special Features:o Scene Access
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Yet Another AWFUL Australian Movie (The Do Make Lotsa These) January 19, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
In this sorry excuse for a movie we see Anthony Hopkins who plays a "Time And Motion" expert to try to get a failing Australian Factory back on it's feet. Upon his arrival he is greeted by an assortment of "Little Aussie Bludgers" who think nothing of dancing a jig when they should be working. This is a fairly good indication of the State of the Australian Workforce which is why most Australian businesses have chosen to relocate offshore and also as a result of totally unreasonable Union Demands which priced Australia out of the competitive World Market.I give this movie 5 stars because I have always liked Alwyn Kurts and Anthony Hopkins and Russell Crowe doesn't pick up a phone and throw it at anybody and then has to pay the guy 3 million dollars for this impulsive act.
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