Office Space (1999)

Director:

Mike Judge

Writers (WGA):

Mike Judge (Milton animated shorts)
Mike Judge (screenplay)

Release Date:

19 febrero 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Romance

Frase comercial:

Work Sucks.

Plot:

Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss.

Plot Keywords:

Flair | Business Consultant | Cult Comedy | Hypnosis | Dallas Texas

Awards:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

As is sure to be the saying by now, anyone who has ever worked in an office should get a pretty good kick out of this one.

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Aug. 2

3:10 AM

HBO

Cast

Ron Livingston	...	Peter Gibbons
Jennifer Aniston	...	Joanna
David Herman	...	Michael Bolton
Ajay Naidu	...	Samir Nagheenanajar
Diedrich Bader	...	Lawrence
Stephen Root	...	Milton Waddams
Gary Cole	...	Bill Lumbergh
Richard Riehle	...	Tom Smykowski
Alexandra Wentworth	...	Anne
Joe Bays	...	Dom Portwood
John C. McGinley	...	Bob Slydell
Paul Willson	...	Bob Porter
Kinna McInroe	...	Nina
Todd Duffey	...	Brian - Chotchkie's Waiter
Greg Pitts	...	Drew

También conocida como:

Cubiculos de la oficina (USA: Spanish title)
Enredos de oficina (Argentina) (Mexico) (Peru) [es]
Trabajo basura (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and brief sexuality.

Duración:

89 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Brazil:Livre | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:12 | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

4120 Friedrich Lane, Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Smykowski's Lawyer (Rob Newhouse) shares his name with Robert Newhouse, a well-known player for the Dallas Cowboys in the '70s-'80s. The team is based in Texas where Judge, the director, grew up.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Samir has his battle with the printer, arguing about its paper jam, he grabs at the sheet of paper stuck in it. When the camera viewpoint switches to a longer shot, when you see his arm next, he isn't holding the sheet of paper. The sheet of paper isn't seen again.

Quotes:

Tom Smykowski: [Smykowski is in a full-body cast] Just remember, if you hang in there long enough, good things can happen in this world. I mean, look at me.

Movie Connections:

References Taxi Driver (1976)

Soundtrack:

Peanut Vendor

As is sure to be the saying by now, anyone who has ever worked in an office should get a pretty good kick out of this one.

Every aggravating thing about working in an office, from the traffic on the way to work to that damn copier, is in this movie, and dealt with in ways that we've all wanted to, at some point or another. Well, except for the traffic, of course. The traffic remains undefeated. Besides telling a highly amusing story about office workers who are just fed up with it all, Office Space is full of other little comments on society, such as the way the film points out the sheer goofiness of geeky white guys who listen to hardcore rap music. The film presents a heavily exaggerated version of the typical office, but underneath that exaggeration, the depiction is very accurate. You have the fairly timid but passive aggressive superior, Bill Lumbergh, portrayed hilariously by Gary Cole, the repressive office cubicles, the mumbly guy that kind of weirds everyone out, and of course, the disillusioned office employee who just doesn't care anymore.

Ron Livingston fulfills this last role very well, being very open about his dislike of his job and his intentions to do as little as possible for as long as he still gets paid, but it is the weird guy that really gets laughs consistently, whose name, in this case, is Milton. This guy's hilarious situation involves having been laid off years before without knowing because no one told him, because he still receives a paycheck due to a glitch in the payroll system, and whose primary concerns seem to be the location of his cubicle, his red stapler, and the fact that last year, he didn't receive a piece of cake at the office party. The way that this guy's situation gets consistently worse and the way that he is pushed further and further toward the edge of sanity is one of the funniest things about this movie. And we can't forget the Indian guy, Samir, whose grammatically flawed exclamations also provide for an endless source of comedic entertainment.

Jennifer Aniston plays a small role as Peter Gibbons' (Livingston) love interest, as well as that of a waitress who is also sick and tired of the ridiculousness of her job (such as a specified minimum of pieces of `flair' that employees must wear to work). Ron's home life is another thing that is parodied in this high quality comedy, as the shortcomings of living in an average apartment are clearly and side-splittingly portrayed. Clearly, the office scenes are by far the funniest of the film, and the eventual criminal plot to embezzle a huge sum of money from the company and take up a lifestyle of not really doing anything, despite the fact that it is also very well done, can be largely overlooked because of the sheer hilarity of the rest of the film. This is excellent stuff from the famous creator of the endlessly amusing Beavis & Butt-Head who, with Office Space, has further proved that he is just the type of guy who knows what's funny.