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Plot: When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business she was assured she was n...( read more  )ot alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew from her rabbi and gynecologists to her colleagues had advice and their own accounts of getting the boot to offer. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best thing or worst thing that had happened in her working life. Annabelle turned the wit and trauma of the “fired” experience into a book, which was recently published by Simon and Schuster. The book has received rave reviews and been featured on The Today Show, People Magazine, InStyle, CNN, NPR’s Talk of the Nation and widely praised. The Washington Post called it, “a caustic but merry compendium of failure.” The New York Times said, “Fired proves that sometimes losing well is the best revenge.” The book has been number #1 on the New York Post Hot List and featured in Oprah’s Anticipation list. As she was writing the book she became interested in the downsizings occurring all over the country. She began researching and traveling the country, interviewing people as diverse as Tim Allen, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Garlin, Anne Meara, David Cross and GM workers in Lansing, Michigan whose perspectives ranged from the tragically comedic to proving that old adage when one door closes another door opens, to the just plain tragic. Annabelle attended job fairs, received “outplacement services”, interviewed human resource directors, downsizers, and the downsized who were seeking new jobs. Her journey took her to the office of Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under President Clinton, and to economist Ben Stein who spoke to her of the growing insecurity the American worker faces today and the incredible inequities being created through corporate and government policies affecting every working or as the case may be, not working American. Fired! reminds us that all great success come out of failure and being fired can be a part of the growth process, that humor helps, and that if you’re employed in America today your firing may be both the best and the worst thing that can happen in your working life.

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  MCT:

  February 8, 2008

  Can being fired be funny?? Well, in long run, you got a good story to tell your friends.. This movie is funny at times.. i kinda felt disappointed by end conversations.. i dont wanna know how americans are fucked by their corporates..blah blah..
  But nonetheless some stories were really good and some people were really funny...
  Deserve a watch

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  mentalfig
  

  MCT:

  October 5, 2007

  what? Is this for real? Did the great Woody have anything to do with this or is it just Woody bashing? HE he that sounded rude

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  gurnles
  

  MCT:

  September 18, 2007

  This is a very funny, clever compilation of stories / stand-up acts / tragic documentary stories about people who've been fired.

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  marebear00
  

  MCT:

  August 10, 2007

  The woman that put this together is a whiny pretentious bitch that will only talk to jewish people. So badly done and not at all worth watching. She's doing it for herself, not for the public. That's not the way to do a good documentary. And did she REALLY have to use Woody Allen's font?

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  caitlinwaugh
  

  MCT:

  August 10, 2007

  I really like this film. It is funny and touching.
  If you have ever been fired, or are afraid of getting fired, watch this film.

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  Official sites for Fired! (2007)
  
  
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  Annabelle Gurwitch
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  Tim Allen
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  David Cross
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  Andy Dick
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  Tate Donovan
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  Andy Borowitz
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  Jeff Garlin
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  Richard Kind
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  Anne Meara
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  Bob Odenkirk
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  Robert Reich
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  Jeffrey Ross
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  Harry Shearer
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  Ben Stein
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  Sarah Silverman

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Chris Bradley (IV), Kyle Labrach
• Genres: Documentary
• Released: December 31, 2006
• DVD Released: June 5, 2007

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