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Office Space
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This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of...
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This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of office personalities, and its theme of corporate sabotage. Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a typical middle manager living a mundane life amid a gray maze of cubicles. Everything in his life reeks of mediocrity, from the mid-size car he drives to the chain restaurant, Chotchky's (read: TGI Friday's), where he eats lunch every day. Even his apartment, a cookie-cutter duplex with walls so thin that he can chat with his next-door neighborhood through the plaster, is totally lacking in personality. The company where he works is peppered with ambitionless drones who blindly comply with the condescending requests made of them by their Porsche-driving CEO (Gary Cole). Then one day, Gibbons snaps. As a team of experts is brought in to enact large-scale layoffs, Gibbons simply stops trying and adopts an attitude of total disinterest. That is, he's only interested in dating the ...
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| Key Information | |
| Stars | Jennifer Aniston, Ron Livingston |
| Actors | Ajay Naidu, Alexandra Wentworth, David Herman, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley, Richard Riehle, Stephen Root |
| Available Formats | DVD, DVD: 2-Disc Set; Canadian; Includes Digital Copy; Sensormatic; Wi, DVD: 2-Disc Set; Checkpoint; Includes Digital Copy; Sensormatic;W, DVD: Canadian; Holiday O-Ring; Sensormatic; Pan and Scan, DVD: Canadian; Holiday O-Ring; Sensormatic; Widescreen, DVD: Canadian; Special Edition; Full Frame, DVD: Canadian; Special Edition; Widescreen, DVD: Full Frame, DVD: Retail Exclusive; Special Edition, DVD: Special Edition - Full Screen, DVD: Special Edition - Widescreen, DVD: Special Edition; Widescreen; Bonus BORAT DVD, VHS, VHS: Spanish Subtitled |
| Directors | Mike Judge |
| UPC | 024543044994, 024543160892, 024543167150, 024543212614, 024543212621, 024543214960, 024543214977, 024543408338, 024543535027, 024543535034, 024543551287, 024543551300, 086162001352, 086162118456, 086162142444 |
| Genre | Comedies |
| Subgenre | Theatrical Release |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) |
| Release Date | 1999 |
| Running Time | 1hr 29min |
| Languages | |
| Original Language | English |
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| Credits | |
| Screenwriter | Mike Judge |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | (01/01/2000, p.64, Danny Leigh): "...Almost painfully comic...", (01/01/2004, p.141, Michael Bonner): "[O]ften screamingly funny.", (02/19/1999, p.13E, Susan Wloszczyna): "...[Judge] possesses an eye for the uncensored truths of our daily lives....If you've ever had a job, you'll be amused by this paean to peons...", (02/19/1999, p.30, Roger Ebert): "...OFFICE SPACE is a comic cry of rage against the nightmare of modern office life....The movie's dialogue is smart...", (02/19/1999, p.F6, Kevin Thomas): "...Sharp and funny....Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts, OFFICE SPACE is a winner...", (04/01/1999, p.235, Wade Major): "...Viciously wry humor....Hilarious....OFFICE SPACE is ruthlessly funny stuff...", (11/04/2005, p.58, Chris Willman): "[A] pic in which even tiny performances are gems..." -- Grade: B+, (12/01/2005, p.182, Claire Evans): 3 stars out of 4 -- "[I]f you don't know how many pieces of flair you should be wearing or why the Swingline stapler is so much better than the Boston, then by all means skip happy hour tonight and get to watching.", (12/01/2005, p.98, Peter Travers): Ranked #17 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he new disc has eight deleted scenes to up the fun quotient, which was already high." |
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