be gained from watching this small but well-done film. Grady Harp, February 08 44 of 50 people found the following review helpful 4.0 out of 5 stars A Christian Slater tour-de-force Feb 5 2008 By Craig Matteson - Published on Amazon.com Format: DVD Count me as one of those that really admire (most) of this film. My disappointments: I don't like the fire hose volume of profanity and don't believe it represents real life as much as those justifying it want to pretend it does. And there is one rather disturbing sex scene that could have been handled differently to make the same point. These kinds of scenes aren't "real" and certainly can't compete with movies made to arouse. So, why have them? Christian Slater is terrific as the deeply disturbed Bob Maconel. He is a cipher and used as an office whipping boy by a couple of low-level low-quality bullies passing for managers. Like many office drones, he dreams about a woman at the office. His dreamgirl is named Vanessa who notices the ceramic bobble hula girl he keeps on his cubicle, but she is too absorbed in her blazing rocket of a career to even pay attention to real people in anything but a passing manner. But she has a smile that lights up a room, as the movie keeps noting. Bob takes his lunch on a spot where he has a view of the company skyscraper and has a little plastic box with a button so he