First-time director Robert Jury finds suspense amidst the humdrum, and love among the rubble of a marriage put on hold. After decades at a routine job for a Rust Belt plastics company, our titular laborer learns that his home away from home is shuttering. But that doesn’t stop him from clocking in. Allery (Peter Gerety) is drawn to the plant, just as a George Romero zombie, back from the dead, might instinctively skedaddle to the shopping mall — it’s a place that played an important role in their life. After nine months working alongside Allery, Walter (Billy Brown) swears he’s never heard him speak. Rather than allow the locals to judge him, Walter turns Allery into the factory idol by crediting him with his plan to temporarily reopen the plant. Allery's wife's (Talia Shire) transition from shock and disbelief to adoring support system is subtlety personified. Shire is still playing Adrian Balboa, only now she’s married to a different kind of fighter. Gerety is a chameleonic descendant of the royal families of Charles Durning or Kenneth McMillan, a character actor whose general imperceptibility made him a natural to play Allery. It’s the role of a lifetime. (2020) — Scott Marks
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