Waydowntown (2000)

Directed by

Gary Burns

Genre

comedy film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of office workers in Calgary make a bet to see who can go the longest without going outside. The film follows their increasingly absurd behavior inside the city's indoor skywalk system as they deal with the deadening effects of corporate life.

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What happens

Waydowntown (stylized as waydowntown) is a 2000 Canadian film directed by Gary Burns and starring Fab Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver and Michelle Beaudoin. The film is a dark comedy that explores office culture and its effects and often uses surrealism to achieve its thematic goals. The film is set in Calgary, Alberta, where many downtown buildings are connected by the Plus 15, an extensive network of indoor skywalks. Because of this network, the hustle and bustle of the traditional "main street" has been replaced by recirculated air, food courts, and fluorescent lights. The result is a bleak and often humorous dark comedy about Canadian corporate culture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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