Âgé de 13 ans, Sam Cleary suspecte que son mystérieux et solitaire voisin, Mr. Smith, soit en réalité une légende qui se cache au grand jour. Il y a 25 ans, le superpuissant justicier de Granite City, Le Samaritain, a été déclaré mort dans un entrepôt, après un combat tragique avec son rival, Nemesis. La plupart des gens pensent que Le Samaritain a péri dans les flammes, mais certains habitants, comme Sam, ont bon espoir qu’il soit encore en vie. Alors que la ville est au bord du chaos et que les crimes se multiplient, Sam se donne pour mission de persuader son voisin de sortir de sa cachette et de sauver la ville de la ruine.
Après avoir tout perdu à cause de la récession, une femme part sur les routes de l'Ouest américain.
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.
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Situé dans un contexte familial où l'humour est omniprésent, ce film sur l'apprentissage de la vie d'adulte tente de faire la part entre les illusions d'une certaine jeunesse et une réalité plus terre à terre.
Dick et Jane vivent une vie parfaite dans une banlieue américaine typique. Jusqu'au jour où Dick perd son emploi dans un scandale semblable à celui d'Enron. Le couple devra donc commencer à voler ses voisins pour payer ses factures.
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
La mère de Shuhei se sent menacée quand ce dernier s'éveille à un monde qui échappe à son contrôle malsain, faisant par conséquent dériver la famille vers la tragédie.
Drowning in debt as he's about to get married, a bright but meek salesman receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden-camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Jamais deux sans trois... Jeunes mariés, Carl et Molly Peterson sont à peine rentrés d'une brève lune de miel à Hawaii que débarque chez eux l'ineffable Randolph Dupree, célibataire endurci, glandeur incurable... et meilleur ami de Carl. Licencié pour s'être octroyé une semaine de congés et plaqué par sa petite amie, Duprée se retrouve sans travail, sans ressources, sans voiture et sans domicile.Comment les Peterson lui refuseraient-ils l'hospitalité ? Combien de temps pense-t-il rester ? Deux, trois jours au maxium, éventuellement un mois, mais peut-être un peu plus...
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.