A mildly funny satire on contemporary office work in America.
Office Space (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 57
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 sabotage. Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a... 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
Director: Mike Judge
Director: Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge
Producer: Michael Rotenberg, Daniel Rappaport
Composer: John Frizzell
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Reviews for Office Space
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?
Plays like a live-action version of the "Dilbert" comic strip. A smart, funny satire.
Um, yeah… why don’t you just go ahead and… buy this DVD… That’d be great.
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.
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.
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).
wickedly satirizes the modern technological office in a film that has become a cult classic
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.
Anyone who's logged time in an office will be laughing hysterically at all of the little indignities.
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