Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 4.0
One of my favorites!
If you've ever worked in an office setting, you've gotta see this movie. It follows Peter, a bored software engineer, as he deals with corporate downsizing, self-important management and bonehead corporate consultants. Although this movie is set at a software company in Texas, it could have easily been set in any state in most any office.I actually saw this movie in the theater when I was still in college. I thought it was funny, but I couldn't fully appreciate the office humor. That's what makes this movie so funny. It's not the great American movie, it's not deep and it's not trying to be anything it's not. It's just a very funny and smart look at common situations and charactatures of people we all seem to have in our workplaces. I think everyone's gotten to the point where we just don't want to go back to work the next day, and we just don't care enough to tell the boss that we're not showing up anymore.You definitely won't catch everything the first time you see this movie. You won't catch all of Milton's (played by the same guy who was the station owner on NBC's News Radio) mumblings about his Swingline stapler and about the squirrels he used to watch outside his window. One of the corporate consultants is played by the same guy who plays Dr. Cox on NBC's Scrubs, and he has some of my favorite lines as he interviews Peter's friend, Michael Bolton (no need to say more!). Jennifer Aniston has a minor role, and she simply comes across as a ditzy waitress.The downside to the DVD is it is simpler than the movie. There's really no extras other than a trailer. It would have been great to have had some outtakes, because you can really tell that these actors had fun making this movie.