where was take this job and shove it filmed
Dubuque, Iowa Minneapolis, Minnesota Dubuque Star Brewery
title: Take This Job and Shove It (film) text: Take This Job and Shove It (film) Take This Job and Shove It is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Gus Trikonis and starring Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, Art Carney, and David Keith. The film was named after a popular country song, "Take This Job and Shove It", which was written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck; both men had minor roles in the film. A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison to help reorganize one title: Take This Job and Shove It (film) text: who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery—or apparently—running a business. Most of the film was shot in Dubuque, Iowa, and the Dubuque Star Brewery, also some minor scenes were shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Take This Job and Shove It" was the first film to feature monster trucks. Bob Chandler's Bigfoot #1 is seen throughout the movie as Ray's pick-up truck. Everett Jasmer's USA-1, credited as "Thunderin' Lightning", is the blue truck at the starting line that, in the script, broke down when the race started. Jasmer's daily delivery truck was used as the rival truck to Bigfoot, title: Take This Job and Shove It (film) text: office total was $17,569,027. Take This Job and Shove It (film) Take This Job and Shove It is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Gus Trikonis and starring Robert Hays, Barbara Hershey, Art Carney, and David Keith. The film was named after a popular country song, "Take This Job and Shove It", which was written by David Allan Coe and sung by Johnny Paycheck; both men had minor roles in the film. A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison title: Take This Job and Shove It (film) text: known as Silver Bullet. Neither USA-1 nor Bigfoot look like a modern monster truck, as they have only the 48-inch tires that then were the standard "Monster" tire. Bob Chandler is seen as the flagman at the beginning of the race, and his family can be seen throughout the picnic sequences. The Dubuque Star Brewery still stands today in the same location. It has been renovated and is now a private bar and grill. The film was released by Avco Embassy in the United States on May 15, 1981, and became somewhat of a sleeper hit. The film's final box title: History of Dubuque, Iowa text: he moves up through the labor union organization. Dubuque was chosen because without TV antennas it looked more like Cleveland of the 1930s than Cleveland did. In between came "Take This Job and Shove It", a movie starring Robert Hays and Art Carney that was filmed at the old Dubuque Star Brewery. In the late 1980s "Field of Dreams" was filmed. Parts of the movie were filmed in Dubuque, as well as the nearby towns of Dyersville and Galena, Illinois. The movie starred Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster. Both well known