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Office Space (1999)

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Reviews Counted:73

Fresh:58

Rotten:15

Average Rating:6.8/10

Consensus: Mike Judge lampoons the office grind with its inspired mix of sharp dialogue and witty one-liners.

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of office personalities, and its theme of corporate... This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of office personalities, and its theme of corporate sabotage. Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a typical middle manager living a mundane life amid a gray maze of cubicles. Everything in his life reeks of mediocrity, from the mid-size car he drives to the chain restaurant, Chotchky's (read: TGI Friday's), where he eats lunch every day. Even his apartment, a cookie-cutter duplex with walls so thin that he can chat with his next-door neighborhood through the plaster, is totally lacking in personality. The company where he works is peppered with ambitionless drones who blindly comply with the condescending requests made of them by their Porsche-driving CEO (Gary Cole). Then one day, Gibbons snaps. As a team of experts is brought in to enact large-scale layoffs, Gibbons simply stops trying and adopts an attitude of total disinterest. That is, he's only interested in dating the blond waitress (Jennifer Anniston) at the local restaurant, and putting in place a devilish scheme for some corporate payback. OFFICE SPACE's writer-director Mike Judge (BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD), scares up some A-list laughs with this film, while also making an excellent parody of corporate culture. Released just as the dot-com boom began to go bust, with massive trends in corporate downsizing on the horizon, it could not have been better timed. Thus, while viewers will delight in the absurdity of the ultimate office loser Milton (Stephen Root), they will also identify with some frighteningly realistic aspects of the film. [More]

Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Ajay Naidu, David Herman

Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Ajay Naidu, David Herman, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, Richard Riehle, Alexandra Wentworth, John C. McGinley

Director: Mike Judge

Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Producer: Michael Rotenberg, Daniel Rappaport
Composer: John Frizzell

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The quintessential modern-day workplace comedy.

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03/24/09
Scott Nash
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs

A mildly funny satire on contemporary office work in America.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/18/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Who hasn't sat at his desk after lunch and spaced out for an hour? Who wouldn't love to march the copy machine into a field and go to town on it with a baseball bat?

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
03/24/06
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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12/06/05
Film Threat
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Plays like a live-action version of the "Dilbert" comic strip. A smart, funny satire.

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11/18/05
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Um, yeah… why don’t you just go ahead and… buy this DVD… That’d be great.

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11/08/05
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Fantastica Daily

If the movie suffers from mild aimlessness and editorial confusion, and it does, those are relatively small speed bumps to endure for such a canny and quick-witted affair.

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11/08/05
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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07/21/05
Houston Chronicle
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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The pleasures are mild and offset by irritations, but on balance the movie isn't so bad. You'll laugh, you'll sigh -- you'll look at your watch.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/29/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In places I laughed so hard I thought I might throw a diskette.

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02/13/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Mesmo perdendo o ritmo no terceiro ato, o filme faz rir na maior parte do tempo (especialmente em função de seu olhar irreverente sobre o cotidiano dos ‘pobres’ burocratas).

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12/08/03
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

wickedly satirizes the modern technological office in a film that has become a cult classic

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09/27/03
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
ToxicUniverse.com

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05/20/03
Kate Manning
Kate Manning
Palo Alto Weekly

more than a comedy . . . it is an anthem for the downtrodden cube-borgs everywhere, who have had the life and soul stomped out of them by an uncaring corporate entity.

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

Anyone who's logged time in an office will be laughing hysterically at all of the little indignities.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Ron Wells
Ron Wells
Film Threat

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal
 
 
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