The Nashville Film Festival announced the titles for its U.S. Independents Program at its 50th Anniversary taking place October 3 to 12, 2019.
Working Man (2019)
Working Man (2019)
NAME OF FILM: WORKING MAN
DIRECTOR(S): Robert Jury
STARRING: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire
GENRE: Drama Film
SYNOPSIS: When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges, Allery Parkes (Peter Gerety). A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing, and against the advice of his loving wife, Iola (Oscar nominee, Talia Shire), he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor, Walter Brewer (Billy Brown), in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them – and as their former corporate bosses strategize how to implode this unexpected movement – Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.