Product: Office Space (1999)
Rating: 5.0
Frighteningly true to life!
I don't know what sorts of jobs Mike Judge's work history includes, but if none of them were low-level (re: peon) white-collar jobs in large corporations, I'd be truly surprised. Office Space does nothing less than epitomize the life that anyone who has every worked in 'cubeville' can more than relate too.Peter, our hero, is the everyman: five years (or so) out of college, a software engineer at the heartless Initech corporation. Every day, he trudges to work to battle with cliche-loving co-workers, eight different bosses (none of whom listen to a word he says), grey cubicle walls as far as the eye can see, and absolute apathy for his work. His friends Samir and Michael Bolton (yes, the name is just a coincidence) live in much the same world of bland mediocrity. What does Peter _really_ want out of life? To do nothing...to relax, sit, and not have a care in the world.Help for Peter's malaise comes from an unexpected source: his nasty soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend who takes him to a hypnotherapist to help him get a bit more satisfaction out of his life and employment. Instead, Peter leaves the session cured a little _too_ well--Peter now intends to fully live out his dream of doing nothing!Thus, Peter begins his assault on corporate America, skipping work, pursuing a new flame, and cleaning fish at his desk. Samir and Michael, pushed around by Initech for the last time, join him in his glory with a 'fool-proof' plan for funding their life of laziness.This movie is much like the 'Dilbert' cartoon strip brought to life. Anyone who has ever worked as a nameless paper-pusher (as I did for three years out of college) behind those grey cubicles will find _Office Space_ an absolute hoot. While the DVD doesn't have many extras, the movie alone (and sitting back, doing nothing, and enjoying it) is worth the purchase.