Office Space

If you have ever worked in an office, or felt you were just a number in the grand scheme of any corporation, youll identify yourself with this film. Did you ever feel that if you ran the company it would make sense? This Independent film exposes what we all know. The company you work for must be run by morons. It is also a great love story without any gratuitous sex or violence. In fact, it doesnt have any. If your child is 14 years-old or older he or she can enjoy it with you. (Some occasional minor profanity) You might as well prepare them now for what they will only learn when he or she enters the work force. Just because someone is their boss does not make them any smarter than anyone else. In fact, it makes you wonder how they ever obtained that position. I thought it was funny movie with a good moral ending. It is not what do for a living; it is how much you enjoy doing it. Oh, by the way, he gets the girl in the end. That should go without saying.

This is a classic! When I finish filing my TPS reports, I will write a longer review. Its a great story with charming actors who do a wonderful job. I watch this every few years and I love it every time!

Someone recommended this movie to me and I loved it

Really really funny movie

I just love this film and as I get older I like it more and more. Even though I havent worked in the USA for years and years, the years I have I can so relate to this film. When it first came out I loved it and now I use words like genius to describe it. Captures both the cooperate culture and chain restaurant industry so well its almost scary. The story follows a group of people working at the lower corporate level a tech firm in the 90s. I just so happened to work for tech firms in the 90s and although all of them werent like this, the majority were. But as long as you have worked at any business in the corporate office level you will get a kick out of this film. It covers all the normal office politics, annoying office mates, type A personalities, horrible upper management, worker bees and everyone else you will find in this environment. The main characters are a low lever programmer and his work mates. The main antagonist is of course the boss and his minions but its more a statement of a man exploring his place in life and where he really would like to be. And surprisingly his desire is not to be rich and powerful but just in a position to enjoy life at his own pace. There is also a peripheral character who works as a waitress at a chain restaurant similar to TGI Fridays or Applebees. Anyone who has ever worked in the restaurant industry will really appreciate this story line and the truths it reveals through her tormentuous struggle. Just brilliant! Also, I have to comment briefly on this version the Bluray, with Flair edition. Even a film of this calibre benefits from such a beautiful picture. They did a very nice transfer. I am not one of those people who like the commentary on most of these types of things but Mike Judge and the rest of the cast did a nice modern update for this edition and it was neither too long or self promoting. I really enjoyed it. And lastly, the deleted scenes were really funny! Great Friday night film. Get some good snacks, some beers and prepare to laugh and cringe!

A delightfully funny and heart warming romantic comedy (with emphasis on comedy) which was the first time I saw Ron Livingston acting; he plays Peter Gibbons. He is extremely funny as a somewhat pathetic and alienated office worker (computer programmer) who is used and abused by the computer software company he works for as is his two friends. After a botches hypnosis session that is supposed to make Peter content with his life as a computer programmer but instead emboldens him to live his life completely disregarding any consequences regarding his work (like fishing instead of working, sleeping in until 11:00 am then showing up for work for a few hours and then leaving), consultants advise him that his two buddies, fellow programmers Michael Botton (David Herman) and Samir (Ajay Naidu), two of the best programmers and most senior employees will be fired to save money by outsourcing their programming to India. Peter convinces his two friends help him defraud the company they work for at the rate of few pennies a day using a computer virus designed by David so that after several years they will have a tidy nest egg in savings. Peter, thanks to the hypnosis session, finds the boldness he previously lacked and begins dating Joanna (Jennifer Aniston); quickly they fall in love. Unfortunately, his romance is interrupted when he checks how Michaels virus is working. In one day, the computer program that should have collected a couple pennies collects over a $100,000. Faced with certain discovery, Peters friendship with Samir and Michael as well as his romance with Joanna are shattered, and Peter plans to turn himself in while taking all the blame for the crime so that his friends will remain free. While on the way to the police and jail, Peter notices a fire (set by a different disgruntled employee) that burns down the computer company he works for, thus destroying all the incriminating accounting documents that might trace him to the crime; BTW, the money is also destroyed by the fire. This intended act of self-sacrifice regains the friendship of Samir and Michael, as well as the respect of Joanna. Thus, Peter is saved from jail, is reunited with his love, and regains the friendship of his two closest friends. This rather low budget film I found tastefully funny, relevant to contemporary feelings of alienation and hostility to companies out to make money at the expense of exploiting employees, and full of well written script and interesting and original plot. I heartily recommend it to film fans of comedy and/or romantic comedy.

Never heard of this movie till 2003 working in a video/music store. Saw it and laughed like crazy. Perfect scenario of how people at the workplace can just get under your skin and all on your nerves.

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I think everybody who’s ever worked in an office can relate to this movie. You watch it and immediately start seeing the similarities between this movie and your work life. I’ve probably watched it at least 20 times over the years. Now I’ll have to watch it again!

I first watched this is my goverment class in high school and I didnt get the film, as well as not having any interest in watching it. Then after knowing more about Mike Judge, I watched it during the pandemic and it now made sense as I was viewing it as an adult in his thirties instead as a high school student who just turned 18. The time that I rewatched it happened was when a year later many people quit their jobs in the summer of 2021 after realizing that they dont visualize themselves continuing with their careers that they spent most of their adult lives in and replaced it with doing whatever brings them joy. Ive told people Ive had conversations with about the labor shortage that Its Office Space in real life. Plus Jennifer Aniston is fantastic in the film.