Product Details

• Actors: Reza Kianian, Mahmoud Kalari, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Rana Azadvar, Fatemeh Motamed Arya
• Directors: Mani Haghighi
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Farsi
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Film Movement
• DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KNN9KK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,162 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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MEN AT WORK - DVD Movie

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why Ask Why, March 9, 2007

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Lee Armstrong (Winterville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Men at Work (DVD)

"Men at Work" is a film from Iran that focuses on four friends. While travelling in a mountainous region within driving distance of Tehran, they stop for one of the group to relieve his bladder. A striking stone rock oddly sticks out by the side of the road. The men's imaginations are captured by the rock; and they assume the mission of trying to push it over and down the cliff. The stone will not budge. In the course of the afternoon, a number of other people drop by. An old man whose donkey is purchased to help in the effort reluctantly sells his animal. Two women that the men know arrive; and we learn part of the social history of the friends. Several groups on a ski trip join the effort, eventually tying a winch and metal rope to their SUV and trying to pull it over. The metal cable snaps and injures one of their crew. One friend stubbornly refuses to leave, even to get his friend medical attention. The film ends with three driving away & coming back to give their friend his coat & hot coffee. This is an open-ended film. One wonders why they try so hard to push over a rock on a mountain road in the middle of nowhere. It's part road picture, part male bonding picture. In the end, not much happens. The film is more of a snapshot of a strange day in the lives of these characters. Director Mani Haghighi makes a decidedly non-political film about a group of friends.

The short film on the disc is "Hold Up" about a woman who persuades her fiancee to hold up a convenience store. Director Madelein Olnek provides good pacing on this quick 6-minute short film. An unusual reversal during the robbery occurs that ties the film together.

The Iranian mountain scenery in "Men at Work" is exceptional. The film has won Best Film @ Traverse City Film Festival, official selection @ Berlin Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival & Tribeca Film Festival. While I enjoyed the scenery and the whimsical nature of these Iranian friends, the film was not riveting. Enjoy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, Silly Film, June 9, 2011

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Alex (Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men at Work (Amazon Instant Video)

Four middle-aged men in Iran are driving from a ski trip, pull over for a bathroom break, see a huge boulder on a cliff, and decide to push it over the edge - the story is as simple as that. It sounds so silly for some guys to decide to do this and spend so much time on it but you understand it as a part of human nature. Sometimes you just feel a need to do something and can't move on until the task is done. The rock on the cliff is compelling enough, and I spent the entire movie truly wishing that they could push it over, even if just to see what (if anything) would happen. In the course of the day, the men are joined by other people passing through who join there cause (or sell a donkey to it). The film was inspired by an idea from Abbas Kiarostami and it reminded me of one of his films, Close-Up; both stories explore men going to far lengths to do something that doesn't seem wise or useful to do. It's about the nature of people to do what they are compelled to do, even if it makes no sense. And yes, it's just plain silly.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What's Up With This?, August 31, 2011

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SanDiegoJesse - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men at Work (Amazon Instant Video)

I understand it's about four friends, etc., but boring, boring, boring. First of all, mountains as scenery for over an hour is boring. Add to that, I just didn't get the point of why anyone would want to try to knock this rock over. Then throwing in the women who arrive and trying to tie that into the storyline, somehow, just didn't work for me. I can't believe I stayed till the end of this. BTW, where did the donkey and women go in the middle of nowhere? What was the crash at the end? Okay, I give up.