Gung Ho (film)

Gung Ho
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRon Howard
Screenplay by
Story by
Produced by
  • Deborah Blum
  • Tony Ganz
Starring
CinematographyDonald Peterman
Edited by
Music byThomas Newman
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 14, 1986 (1986-03-14)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Japanese
Budget$13 million[1]
Box office$36,611,610

Gung Ho (released in Australia and New Zealand as Working Class Man)[2] is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton.[3] The story portrays the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title phrase is an Americanized Chinese term).

A short-lived TV series based on the film, followed in December 1986.

  1. ^ "Gung Ho (1986)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Working Class Man – the movie". National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Archived from the original on April 18, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2018. Australian poster for the Hollywood comedy-drama Gung Ho (Ron Howard, USA, 1986), released locally as Working Class Man [...].
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Canby was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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