He later cowrote, directed, and starred opposite Julia Roberts in the romance Larry Crowne (2011), playing an unemployed man who enrolls in community college.
He seemed as amenable as Dustin Hoffman playing an unemployed actor auditioning in "Tootsie" ("I can be taller. I can be shorter. I can be different").
As Grahame, playing an unemployed factory worker, tries to help him, the director, Maxwell Shane, uses "hidden cameras" (according to the film's trailer) and what looks like a high-speed 16-millimeter film stock to capture some marvelous footage of Times Square at night.
Jerry, playing an unemployed clown called Wolfgart, travels to Rwanda to cheer up the poor orphans who will soon face their own grisly deaths.
In John Carpenter's They Live, Rowdy Roddy Piper, a former pro wrestler playing an unemployed construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses that reveal a secret totalitarian regime.
3 15 P.M. (HBO 2) THE FULL MONTY (1997) Robert Carlyle, below; Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinsonn play unemployed middle-aged steelworkers in Sheffield, England, who take it all off for a little money in this comedy directed by Peter Cattaneo, which received Oscar nominations for best director, best picture and best screenplay, and won for best original music.
11 P.M. (HBO Signature) THE FULL MONTY (1997) Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson play unemployed middle-aged steelworkers in Sheffield, England, who take it all off for a buck in this comedy directed by Peter Cattaneo, which received Oscar nominations for best director, best picture and best screenplay, and won for best original music.
In a performance quaking with contained agony, the great French actor Daniel Auteuil plays an unemployed man and the married father of two who poses as a cardiologist for the World Health Organization while living off money his naïve friends and in-laws hand over to him to invest.
Written and directed by Dan Gilroy (co-writer of "The Bourne Legacy"), it sees Mr Gyllenhaal playing Lou Bloom, an unemployed, 30-ish Los Angeles native who can't even get an unpaid internship in a scrapyard.
("Antipodal"?) But he has no problem playing an aging, unemployed manager of a fast-food joint from Buffalo who finds self-esteem through dancing and stripping in "The Full Monty".
