Best films about unemployed layabouts

On Oct 8, 2:25 pm, " " wrote:
> On Oct 8, 1:06 pm, Richard Fangnail
> wrote:
>
> > Stranger than Paradise
> > Trainspotting
> > Breaking Away
>
> Time Out (Emploi du temps, L' )
> Knocked Up.....

Night and the City - (Richard Widmark's Fabian)
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On 8 Okt, 19:06, Richard Fangnail wrote:
> Stranger than Paradise
> Trainspotting
> Breaking Away

A hand full of O.T. films; Mike Leighs brilliant film All or Nothing
(2002) sprang to mind but on second thoughts most of them were
employed in one way or another. But they were firmly in the "loser"
category. Then there's This is England and Garden State.
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On Oct 8, 3:41 pm, unglued wrote:
> On 8 Okt, 19:06, Richard Fangnail wrote:
>
> > Stranger than Paradise
> > Trainspotting
> > Breaking Away
>
> A hand full of O.T. films; Mike Leighs brilliant film All or Nothing
> (2002) sprang to mind but on second thoughts most of them were
> employed in one way or another. But they were firmly in the "loser"
> category. Then there's This is England and Garden State.



THE ANT AND THEGRASSHOPPER_ One of three Somerset Maugham stories in
the omnibus film _ ENCORE_ Nigel Patrick plays the ne'er do well
brother of pompous Roland Culver.

Dave in Toronto
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On Oct 8, 1:06 pm, Richard Fangnail
wrote:
> Stranger than Paradise
> Trainspotting
> Breaking Away

The guys in Breaking Away may be unemployed, but they work too hard to
be called layabouts.

Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites is a great slacker layabout.

One might include Clerks, but they do have jobs...

John Harkness
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On Oct 8, 6:06?pm, Richard Fangnail
wrote:
> Stranger than Paradise
> Trainspotting
> Breaking Away

The Graduate (well, we never did see Ben get a job)
The Big Lebowski

FoggyTown
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Harkness wrote:

>> Breaking Away
>
>The guys in Breaking Away may be unemployed, but they work too hard to
>be called layabouts.

In one of the W.C. Fields, the son of the 2nd wife lies around the
house all day, sometimes just pretending to "look for work" but mostly
expecting his step-sister & his step-dad (Fields) to keep him fed &
housed. Can't remember which Fields.







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FoggyTown wrote:

>The Graduate (well, we never did see Ben get a job)

Given its enormous popularity & iconic status, I'm surprised they
never made a "Graduate 2: Plastics"







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David Oberman wrote:

> In one of the W.C. Fields, the son of the 2nd wife lies around the
> house all day, sometimes just pretending to "look for work" but mostly
> expecting his step-sister & his step-dad (Fields) to keep him fed &
> housed. Can't remember which Fields.

Is that the one where the spoiled kid and his mother run down W C all
day long and his beauty of a daughter defends him? Ma says sonny could
never expect to find a job with his step-dad's reputation and the kid
frowns, whines piteously, "I don't think I should even try."


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'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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FoggyTown wrote:

> The Graduate (well, we never did see Ben get a job)

Plastics.

We sure saw him do some hustling, though, including one long run to and
fro the church from the time he ran out of gas.

*Easy Rider.* One surly, the other mopish, just ride them cycles down
the highway and smoke dope at camp and then here come the rednecks and
their shotgun.



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'... my name is Noman; this is what my father and mother and my friends
have always called me.' - Odyssey; Book IX
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No Man wrote:

>Is that the one where the spoiled kid and his mother run down W C all
>day long and his beauty of a daughter defends him? Ma says sonny could
>never expect to find a job with his step-dad's reputation and the kid
>frowns, whines piteously, "I don't think I should even try."

That's the one, Tim! My Fields box is in the other room, & I avoid
IMDb these days. I think it's "Man on the Flying Trapeze" or
"Everything That Rises Must Concierge"

It's a funny, funny movie ... natch. Burglars invade the basement, &
fields goes down there & joins them in song.







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No Man wrote:

>> The Graduate (well, we never did see Ben get a job)
>
>Plastics.
>
>We sure saw him do some hustling, though, including one long run to and
>fro the church from the time he ran out of gas.

Plus up & down Highway 101 between Santa Barbara & San Fran in record
time. He'd NEVER be able to do that these days.







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"Richard Fangnail" wrote in message

> Stranger than Paradise
> Trainspotting
> Breaking Away

Endless Summer? (I didn't actually see it however).
Easy Rider
The Wild One
Rebel w/o a Cause

Del
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