The Good Boss (2021) on Netflix
Julio Blanco owns a factory of industrial scales, and a committee's visit will decide a business excellence award. A fired worker, José, arrives with his two children demanding his job back.
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Plot summary
Julio Blanco owns Básculas Blanco, a family firm in a provincial Spanish town that manufactures industrial scales. A committee touring local businesses will soon choose one of them for an award for excellence, and Blanco wants his factory and its workforce flawless for the visit. To that end he steps into his employees' lives, pressuring and smoothing over whatever might spoil the inspection. One problem is José, whom the company let go and who turns up with his two children demanding to be taken back. When the management refuses, José begins a campaign to discredit Blanco and cost him the prize.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Good Boss (2021)
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- Fernando León de Aranoa's The Good Boss received a record-breaking 20 nominations at the 36th Goya Awards and won six, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, Score and Editing.
- Spain's film academy AACCE chose The Good Boss as the country's entry for Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards over Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea and Parallel Mothers, and it reached the 15-film shortlist but was not nominated.
