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Offshore (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
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Detroit-based filmmaker Diane Cheklich offers an intimate take on an international business trend in this office drama detailing the battle that erupts after an outsourced cubicle dweller is forced to personally train her replacements -- three ambitious young Indians who have been hand-selected to help get a small Indian call center off the ground. Fairfax Furniture CEO Derek Abernathy has a problem -- if he doesn't manage to cut costs quickly, odds are he'll be out of a job before he can blink.

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy

Directed By: Diane Cheklich

Written By: Diana Cheklich, Peg Bogema, Diane Cheklich, Chetana Kowshik

In Theaters: May 29, 2009 Wide

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Hampered by a script that veers from infantile to ugly and a director who doesn't know when to say "cut."

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

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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.

May 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Aaron Hillis

Village Voice

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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.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

What's cobbled together in Diane Cheklich's harebrained feature is a mishmash of desperate clich�s 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.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine

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Matthew Nestel

Boxoffice Magazine

...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.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

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

May 28, 2009 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

By painting the downsized as a bunch of racist grotesques, Cheklich does a disservice to those Americans threatened with the very real prospect of suffering layoffs.

May 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Andrew Schenker

Slant Magazine

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