Skag

"You think you know what hard work is?" The steel mill's whistle cuts through another Pittsburgh dawn. Karl Malden's Otto is a man whose entire world is measured in tons of steel and the respect of his sons. This 1980 drama unfolds not on epic stages, but in the claustrophobic spaces of a family coming apart at the seams. As a sudden stroke fells the patriarch, the fragile balance of power shatters. Loyalties are tested, long-buried resentments surface, and the very definition of strength is rewritten. It's a raw, unflinching portrait of blue-collar life, where love and legacy are forged in the same relentless heat as the metal they pour.