Office Space (1999)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 19
Mike Judge lampoons the office grind with its inspired mix of sharp dialogue and witty one-liners.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 8
Mike Judge lampoons the office grind with its inspired mix of sharp dialogue and witty one-liners.
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Average Rating: 4/5
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Movie Info
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his cookie-cutter apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it -- so every day is the worst of his life. To
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Jennifer Aniston
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Ron Livingston
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Gary Cole
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Stephen Root
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David Herman
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Ajay Naidu
Samir -
Alexandra Wentworth
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Diedrich Bader
Lawrence -
Richard Riehle
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John C. McGinley
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Todd Duffey
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All Critics (90) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (19) | DVD (30)
Frequently uproarious.
Top CriticA take-this-job-and-shove-it movie about the crushing malevolence of the corporate environment, it's on the verge of being really good.
Some horrible Monday, why not cut work to see it?
The gags about the daily grind and what happens when a drone forgets how to be submissive make for beautifully low-key satire.
Judge's sense of the ridiculous serves him well.
When Peter actively rebels and is ironically rewarded for his efforts by the head honchos, the picture loses its bite -- what began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce.
So good, you should quit work to see it.
A shapeless comedy of little merit.
Even if it doesn't up live to its inspired beginning, Mike Judge scores something with all the marks of a workplace cult classic with his first big-screen, live-action outing.
The quintessential modern-day workplace comedy.
A mildly funny satire on contemporary office work in America.
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 last half is a disappointment of routine, mildly amusing humor.
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.
In places I laughed so hard I thought I might throw a diskette.
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).
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.
Judge's plots may be a bit shallow, but his characters, and the things they say, are genuinely funny.
Anyone who's logged time in an office will be laughing hysterically at all of the little indignities.
Audience Reviews for Office Space
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- Milton: I believe you have my stapler.
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- Milton: I believe you have my stapler...
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- Peter Gibbons: When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you 'Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays'?
- Lawrence: [long pause] No.... No, man...Shit, no man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked saying somethin like that, man.
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- Samir: I'm not going to do anything illegal.
- Peter Gibbons: Illegal? Samir, this is America!
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- Lawrence: [as Peter leaves to confess to Lumbergh about stealing money, knowing he may go to prison] Peter... watch out for your cornhole, bud.
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- Milton: I could set the building on fire.
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