A Different approach

A young filmmaker, hired to make a sombre straight-forward film about the reasons employers should hire the disabled, decides instead to take an innovative, irreverent approach to what is usually a piously hush-hush subject. The film shows him screening his film to an incredulous audience and trying to convince them that his different approach is the right one. Stars Michael Keaton with cameo appearances by Martin Mull, Ed Asner, Jim Nabors and Carroll O’Connor.

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Credits

production company

Belfern Productions

co-producer

Fern Field

Jim Belcher

director

Fern Field

Duration

00:20:37:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1978

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

014249

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Management

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Personnel management

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Discrimination against the handicapped

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Creative thinking

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Discrimination against the handicapped

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Handicapped - Employment

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1978

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