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Top 10 Labor Day Movies
Happy Labor Day! I love working men and women. I always have, but let’s face it every list I see of top Labor Day movies shows people getting all sweaty and dirty in a coal mine 16 hours a day or malingering on a picket line. That sure isn’t my idea of labor. Instead I searched my memory for the top Labor Day movies that I enjoy. You won’t find many unions in these my friends.
10. In Good Company (2004) – Dennis Quaid is an over the hill executive who still has a trick or two up his sleeve.
9. Pretty Woman (1990) – Richard Gere’s character works hard so he can play hard. When he discovers the woman of his dream he courts her with a yacht.
8. Philadelphia Story(1940) – John Howard has worked his way up through the company and he’s set to marry boss’s daughter. Unfortunately for him, she’d rather have Cary Grant who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Breeding is important.
7. Sabrina (1995) – Yes, it’s a remake, but I Harrison’s Ford character proves if you work hard for 30 or so years, you can eventually have a social life.
6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – A movie that proves we don’t need social programs as long as we have game shows.
5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) – If there was ever a better movie about the dangers of the estate tax, I don’t know what it is. Wonka leaves his factory to the very deserving Daniel after torturing a dozen or so candidates in the pre-cursor of today’s reality shows.
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – The kind of high pressure business that built this country is the sight of a mystery. In the end the guilty party is caught and punished. I love happy endings.
3. Iron Man II (2010) – OK Batman is a millionaire, but he’s not an arms dealer. Tony Stark is everything a leading man should be in this movie where he takes no flack from super villains or Congress.
2. Wall Street (1987) -A great movie, but like Trading Places it suffers from a depressing ending. The first half of the movie can’t be beat though.
1. Citizen Kane (1941) – One of the greatest movie’s ever made. Charles Foster Kane is a hero to myself and many other people who manage people for a living.
