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Spotswood
1992 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Mark Joffe
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
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Probably a regional / marketing thing. Certainly it was "Spotswood" in Australia and New Zealand at the time of release. Spotswood is the name the Melbourne suburb where the film is set. I don't think I've ever been to Spotswood, but I have been to neighbouring Williamstown and I recall there was a commercial slot car racing layout in a retail location above a shop. This was 15 years ago so probably long gone. I remember wondering whether there was a connection to the movie, some kind of local slot car culture of some kind.
Apparently renamed to “The Efficiency Expert”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102969/
If you ever get the chance to see "Spotswood", a real niche Indie movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a man with a cold heart who discovers his own humanity through the power of slot car racing (yes way), take it.