What’s cobbled together in Diane Cheklich’s harebrained feature is a mishmash of desperate clichés and over-the-top depictions of Americans as vile, lazy recalcitrants who gleek racial epithets after each swig from a cheap beer or an oversized coffee mug.
Offshore (2009)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:2
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:May 29, 2009 Limited
Synopsis:
Fairfax Furniture’s call center is about to come under attack. CEO Derek Abernathy must cut costs or lose his job, so he does what any modern businessman would do: he sacrifices others. He declares...
Fairfax Furniture’s call center is about to come under attack. CEO Derek Abernathy must cut costs or lose his job, so he does what any modern businessman would do: he sacrifices others. He declares Voxx of India their new call center, putting the jobs of lifers like Carol Silvers and Gen-Xers like Bridgette Mars on the block.
But first they must train their replacements.
In India, businessman Devendra Tiwari and his earnest halfwit son Ajay have their work cut out for them: Voxx doesn’t actually exist. Yet. From the masses desperate for work, they pick three candidates to go to America to be turned into trainers. Nikhil, Anjali and Reva are thrilled to land these prestigious jobs, but when they arrive in Detroit they find they are not at all welcome. In fact, Carol and her furious co-workers have declared war.
The job thieves are tormented at every turn. Carol gives them the wrong training information, makes sure they are socially ostracized, and even rallies the local television muckraker to her cause.
Meanwhile, in India, Voxx’s call center is cobbled together with mismatched phones, malfunctioning computers, employees straining to adjust to the night shift and the prayers of a swami.
All Voxx needs now are its trainers.
But back in America, the trainers are broken, one by one. Carol has nearly won her war against the Indians. But Abernathy is determined to make good on this faltering deal. He tells Voxx they’ve got 24 hours to go live – or they will all lose everything.
The trainers return home to utter chaos – and the unbreakable belief that this ragtag start-up can accomplish their impossible mission.
Offshore is the corporate war between the Fairfax cowboys and the Indians.
Can anyone win? --© Official Site
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Starring: Diane Allemon, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Neil Bhoopalam
Starring: Diane Allemon, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Neil Bhoopalam
Director: Diane Cheklich
Director: Diane Cheklich
Screenwriter: Peg Bogema, Diane Cheklich
Studio: Big Pictures
Reviews for Offshore
Hampered by a script that veers from infantile to ugly and a director who doesn't know when to say "cut."
Has an initially intriguing plot that's quite timely, but ultimately falls flat as a drama, socioeconomic critique and comedy with an unfocused screenplay that's often jejune and contrived.
Dark comedy about the effects of outsourcing on an American call center about to lose its jobs to Mumbai. The film offers no pat solutions to a problem that faces workers everywhere, but it does challenge us to think about a system that is involved in a r
...we get a in depth look into Italian politics. But, you don't need to be familiar with that country's volatile recent years to enjoy a fine piece of filmmaking.
Michigan-based filmmaker Diane Cheklich's insipid, cheapjack dramedy -- about a flagging company's decision to outsource -- isn't potent enough to even be called a lukewarm-button movie.
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