Work Is a 4-Letter Word

Year: 1968

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Director: Peter Hall

Comedy

A dreamlike satire follows a young man who initially refuses a job at the sole employer in his bleak, industrial town. When he discovers the plant’s boiler room offers an ideal climate for his beloved horticultural—actually fungal—experiment, he reconsiders, finding purpose amid the town’s odd, perfectly normal characters.

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