Office Space (1999)

Directed by

Mike Judge

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

R

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 3,427 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three office workers are fed up with their mind-numbing jobs at a dysfunctional software company. They decide to rebel against their soulless corporate environment and the tyrannical management.

satiricalbleakly funnyfrustratingcatharticrelatabledry90s nostalgicangsty

What happens

Office Space is a 1999 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge. It satirizes the office work life of a typical 1990s software company, focusing on a handful of individuals weary of their jobs. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. Office Space was filmed in Dallas and Austin, Texas. It is based on Judge's Milton cartoon series and was his first foray into live-action filmmaking. The film was Judge's second full-length motion picture release, following Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. It was released in theaters on February 19, 1999, by 20th Century Fox. Its sympathetic depiction of ordinary information technology workers garnered a cult following within that field, but it also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees and the workforce in general. It received critical acclaim but was a box office disappointment, making $12.2 million on a $10 million production budget; however, it sold well on home video, and has become a cult film. Several aspects of the film have become Internet memes. A scene in which the three main characters systematically destroy a dysfunctional printer has been widely parodied. Swingline introduced a red stapler to its product line after the character Milton used one painted in that color in the film. Judge's 2009 film Extract is also set in an office and was intended as a companion piece to Office Space. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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