在这部摩天楼上的午餐纪录片片中,拍摄于1932年的照片《摩天楼上的午餐》中，11个建筑工人坐在纽约通用电气公司建筑工地69楼的一根工字梁上吃午餐。他们中有多少是怀揣美国梦的移民？大萧条时代又给他们带来何等影响？爱尔兰导演肖恩·欧库兰和弟弟一起用这部纪录电影探寻拍摄者及照片上11个人的真实身份，还原当时爱尔兰裔移民工人的生活。影片用大量的访谈及相片修复，重新建立了拍摄这张照片的原始情景，观众将强烈感受到抽丝剥茧的快感，在解密过程中与导演一起寻找历史的真貌。
New York City, 1932. The country is in the throes of the Great Depression, the previous decade's boom of Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants has led to unprecedented urban expansion, and in the midst of an unseasonably warm autumn, steelworkers risk life and limb building skyscrapers high above the streets of Manhattan. In Men at Lunch, director Seán Ó Cualáin tells the story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza that depicts eleven workmen taking their lunch break while casually perched along a steel girder - boots dangling 850 feet above the sidewalk, Central Park and the misty Manhattan skyline stretching out behind them. For 80 years, the identity of the eleven men - and the photographer that Immortalized them - remained a mystery: their stories, lost in time, subsumed by the fame of the image itself. But then, at the start of the 21st century, the photograph finally began to give up some of its secrets. Part ...
记得某日经过曼哈顿时代广场...。
