Office Space (1999)

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Genres: Black Comedy Comedy Workplace Comedy

Peter Gibbons is a computer programmer who despises his job at Initech and his annoying boss Bill Lumbergh. His coworkers and friends, Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar, also hate their jobs and are about to be laid off in a downsizing of the company. To get back at Initech for their troubles, the trio plant a virus into Initech's banking system that will siphon money into Peter's bank account gradually. However, after a glitch in the virus code causes a large sum of money to immediately transfer to their account, the trio must find a way to solve the problem without going to jail. --IMDb

Review by Chad
Added: November 11, 2003

What can be said? This movie is a classic, comedy gold all the way through.

Peter represents anyone who's ever had to work a shitty job, with shitty bosses, doing shitty work. Almost everyone can relate with the things that are going on here, be it the droning boss, or the company equipment that won't work as planned, or the big bosses who have no idea about what actually goes on at the job. Good ol' Mike hit the nail on the head with his representations of the modern workplace. The restaraunt business is briefly touched upon, with the waitress who has to wear 'flair' for her job; flair being pins and buttons. The boss expects more and more from her, always pointing to the do-gooding waiter who kisses everyones ass. Now tell me, any of you working stiffs out there had such happen?

There's loads of classic scenes and lines to be found in this movie, which would take forever to list off. One in particular, however, just rules the rest. One of the machines in the office is a piece of shit, it never works right; always eating paper, always giving out cryptic error messages. When the boys are fired, they take said machine out to a field and give it quite the gangsta beatdown. That scene is one of the single funniest moments in cinematic history, in my opinion.

The acting by everyone is done top notch. When you can watch a movie and identify with almost everyone portrayed ("I know a guy just like that"), you know they did something right. The storyline flows pretty realistically, but stays interesting throughout.

10/10

#1: Clarence Bodicker - added July 30, 2004 at 2:41am
Fucking hilarious movie. Best part is Peter's dream in which Lumberg is bangin' Jennifer Aniston's character.

#2: StandinOnAnOverpass - added August 15, 2004 at 8:19pm
Awesome film. Just go buy it. hehe

#3: Schillinger - added August 25, 2004 at 9:31am
As someone who's worked in construction before, I can safely say that working an office job would be much better. Other than that, it's okay.

#4: HeatoN - added November 27, 2004 at 12:04am
one of my favorite movies ever! not really anything to complain about. everyone should own this movie.

#5: Crispy - added May 10, 2005 at 11:56pm
"if you're having a bad day, does anyone ever say looks like somebody has a case of the mondays""No, no. In fact, I think you'd get your ass kicked for saying something like that."

#6: Moggy - added July 17, 2005 at 3:20am
lovely movie.

#7: Tristan - added November 11, 2005 at 5:21am
Probably the funniest movie I've ever seen, or close to it. Ties up there with Death To Smoochy anyway.

#8: Danington138 - added February 16, 2007 at 6:27pm
"heeeey Peter, whaaaaat's happening?"

#9: danimigra - added March 15, 2008 at 7:01pm
Just sucks... a saturday eve tv movie... no more than taht.... 5/10

#10: Kezia Vadimas - added July 15, 2008 at 4:41pm
Milton Waddams (Steven Root) made me laugh so hard with his mumbled threats and complaints.

"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire... "

Definatly not the funniest movie I've ever seen, but it kept me laughing. 8/10