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Office Space [1999]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Diedrich Bader
directed by Mike Judge

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Office Space is a movie for anyone who's ever spent eight hours in a "Productivity Bin", had to endure a smarmy, condescending boss, had worries about layoffs, or just had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts for a maddening commute to work again in the morning.

His co-workers in the cube farm are an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronising jerk, and his days are consumed with tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced relaxation takes hold, there's no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at his corporation and with two colleagues (both of whom are slated for the chute) he devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scam soon snowballs, however, throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day.

A little bit like a US version of The Office, director Mike (King of the Hill) Judge's debut movie is a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen's work life perfectly. Jennifer Aniston, a waitress at Chotchkie's, a generic beer-and-burger joint, plays Peter's love interest and Diedrich Bader has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter's moustached, long-haired, drywall-installin' neighbour. --Jerry Renshaw

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Damn it's good to be a gangsta...
  One of the least known and yet best films I own. From beginning to end it will hold a very big mirror up to all that is truly hateful and mundane when working in a cubicle maze for a boss (or bosses!) who can drive even the most upbeat and placid human being to new levels of insanity. The characters and their private revolution against the system have everyone who sees this movie cackling and nodding their heads.
  It is probably the best movie to watch on a Sunday night with all your friends, just for... more info

• There is only one thing wrong with this DVD release...
  ...and that problem is that we never get any really good Special Edition box sets here in Region 2. So, Fox, let's have a Special Edition of "Office Space" for Region 2, like you did in the States, and throw in the "Milton" shorts mentioned in the opening credits!
  Aside from that, it's brilliantly written, superbly acted, beautifully filmed, exactingly designed and produced, wonderfully scored, endlessly quotable, and works on many levels at once. It functions best as an outright satire of Work.... more info

• A 90s Classic
  I am not sure what it is about this movie that makes it such an enjoyable watch. I guess that every member of cast puts in an outstanding performance, Ron Livingston and David Herman especially are great but also Ajay Naidu is very good in this as he is in Bad Santa where he pops up in briefly and steals the movie. heck even Jennifer Ainston is very sexy and watchable in this movie.
  I guess it also helps if you work in a mundane boring office job like me, then you are going to enjoy this movie.more info

• Classic
  This film is just great, watched it when it first came out & loved it then too. I actually almost rate it side by side with some of my 80's faves like The Goonies, The Burbs etc, albeit not as well known. This movie doesn't need to be mainstream, it does all its own publicity by being great! The characters are hilarious... "You've been missing alot of work recently'...I wouldn't say I've been MISSING it Bob!" lol! Great.

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