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1) Exam
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Eight young people vying for a sought-after job are locked together in a room and given one hour to finish their exam. But the exam is a blank piece of paper and the eight candidates soon realize their only competition isn't about questions and answers, but each other.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he falls in love with witty co-worker, Emily Lewin. In that...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Earl Hickey is a recovering ne'er-do-well with a lifetime's worth of dirty deeds to make up for. In order to turn his life around, Earl needs a G.E.D., a job, an apartment, and a whole lot of good karma. And, if her can keep his ex-wife out of prison, so much the better.
4) Get a job
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Recent college graduates Will and Jillian quickly encounter the struggles millennials face in today's highly competitive job market. When Will's job falls through and Jillian gets laid off, the young couple and their friends must endure public humiliation, hazing, and surprise drug tests to ultimately launch their fledgling careers.
5) The hunt
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
6) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
7) Labor pains
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Thea is on the brink of being fired, to keep her job she makes a desperate claim: She's pregnant! Her employer fears a lawsuit and lets Thea keep her job. Now, she has to keep up the lie to keep her job and her new man.
8) Major Payne
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Description
When peace breaks out in America, killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Special Forces, is given his marching orders--to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life, Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda, now known as Rosie, helps Carter overcome her insecurities...
11) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
12) Gung ho
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, but when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero in seconds flat.
13) Freeheld
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When a New Jersey police lieutenant is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she and her registered domestic partner must work to secure her pension benefits.
14) Mary Poppins
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
An English nanny with magical abilities takes over the household of a proper London banker and changes the lives of everyone.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy that Tony agreed to sing with Sharpay, instead of her....
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies. Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped ot his belt. Into their life of 'users, ' pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a spunky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of a laptop from another. Now Jen will introduce real life to the guys who...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Started in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, the CCC was used as a way to not only help unemployed Americans, but to help conserve some of the country's forests and parks. Over the next ten years it would employ over 3 million men who planted trees, fought fires, and helped their families financially. Features interviews and archived footage.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In season four, the lads try and fail yet again to socialize with the people upstairs, Jen tries to work her way up the corporate ladder by becoming Entertainment Manager and later pretending she can speak Italian, and Moss proves a whiz on a TV game show.
19) Post grad
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins out of control when she's forced to move back home with her eccentric family. By the time she lands her dream job, Ryden realizes it's meaningless without the man of her dreams, and the people she loves.
20) Flawless
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Laura Quinn is an executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself routinely stifled on the corporate ladder. Hobbs is an equally overlooked nighttime janitor with an intimate knowledge of the security system. Hobbs has a score to settle with the Corporation. Sensing Laura's frustration, Hobbs convinces her to help him pull off an ingenious heist.
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