Cheaper by the Dozen – Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy play the Gilbreths (original—not most recent)

Belles on Their Toes – Myrna Loy as Lillian Gilbreth after her husband’s death

Swing Shift – Goldie Hawn as a ‘Rosie the Riveter’ during WW II

Nine to Five – Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton lead organizational change

Spit Fire Grill – challenging work as a motivator

Wall Street – Michael Douglas and Charlie and Martin Sheen on business ethics

The Secret of My Success – Michael J. Fox climbs the corporate ladder

Tucker: The Man and His Dream –Jeff Bridges in the biography of carmaker Preston Tucker

Lifeguard –Sam Elliott faces career choices

The Efficiency Expert – Anthony Hopkins advises an Australian slipper manufacturer

Other People’s Money – Danny DeVito as a takeover artist after a New England company

Desk Set – Spencer Tracy introduces a computer (EMERAC) to Katherine Hepburn and staff

Mr. Baseball – Tom Selleck plays for a culturally different Japanese baseball team

Gung Ho – Michael Keaton is instrumental in the Japanese takeover of a US auto plant

The Full Monty – British unemployment through the eyes of the unemployed

Pretty Woman – Richard Gere and Julia Roberts on customer satisfaction and negotiation

Twelve Angry Men – Henry Fonda as a group leader of a murder trial jury

Twelve O’clock High – Gregory Peck as a WW II bomber leader under stress

Local Hero – Peter Riegert as a deal maker who meets stiff Scottish resistance

Cash McCall – Natalie Wood changes takeover artist James Garner’s view of the world

Working Girl – Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford pitch radio idea on Wall Street

Working – a PBS Special based on Studs Terkel’s book of the same name

The Apartment – Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLaine on life working at an insurance company

Tootsie – Dustin Hoffman learns how women are treated by dressing and working as one

MASH – (the movie) non-conformist MDs battle military bureaucracy

The Godfather (Part 1) – organization of crime syndicate, leadership and ethics

Gattica - genetic discrimination in the workforce

The Temp -- life at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy

Office Space - bad management leads to low morale, fraud, and sabotage

GlenGary/GlenRoss - compettive pressure affects sales force

Human Resources - a son must lay off his father (in French with subtitles)

LABOR/MANAGEMENT RELATIONS:

The Molly Maguires – Sean Connery in the US coal mines

Matewan – John Sayles’ film about the US coal mines

The Organizer – Marcello Mastrianni organizes Italian textile workers

Hoffa – Jack Nicholson plays in the biography of the US Teamster President

Fist – Sylvester Stallone plays in the fictionalized story of Hoffa

Norma Rae – Sally Field helps organize a US textile mill

On the Waterfront – Marlon Brando and Karl Malden on corrupt longshoreman’s union

I’m All right Jack – Peter Sellers on the absurdities of the UK labor movement

Salt of the Earth – Latino unionists in the mines of the US Southwest

RECOMMENDED BY STUDENTS (but not seen by Prof. Davidson):

Nine Innings of Baseball (PBS Special)