Human Resources begins as a documentary-like examination of the monotony and bureaucracy of an anonymous French factory and soon erupts into a committed social drama whose conflicts extend from the workplace into the family.

The protagonist, Franck has just graduated from college and become a management trainee at the same factory where his father works manual labor.� He soon finds his own ideals are being twisted to serve the profit concerns of management, and used to justify lay-offs, including his father who is two years away from his retirement.� Franck sides with the unions against management, jeopardizing his own comfortable position in Human Resources that his father�s hard labor helped him earn.

Director Laurent Cantet uses Franck and his family to portray the psychological and human implications of management�s inhumane use of their employees as just another cog in the functioning of their factory. Human Resources reveals the real personal implications that bureaucratic decisions based solely on profit can have on individuals and the ability and responsibility we all have to fight for our own basic rights in the workplace.

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