Office Space is a movie for anyone who's ever spent eight hours in a "Productivity Bin", had to endure a smarmy, condescending boss, had worries about layoffs, or just had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts for a maddening commute to work again in the morning.
His co-workers in the cube farm are an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronising jerk, and his days are consumed with tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced relaxation takes hold, there's no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at his corporation and with two colleagues (both of whom are slated for the chute) he devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scam soon snowballs, however, throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day.
A little bit like a US version of The Office, director Mike (King of the Hill) Judge's debut movie is a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen's work life perfectly. Jennifer Aniston, a waitress at Chotchkie's, a generic beer-and-burger joint, plays Peter's love interest and Diedrich Bader has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter's moustached, long-haired, drywall-installin' neighbour. --Jerry Renshaw
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Ron Livingston | Peter |
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Jennifer Aniston | Joanna |
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David Herman | Michael Bolton |
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Ajay Naidu | Samir |
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Diedrich Bader | Lawrence |
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Stephen Root | Milton |
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Gary Cole | Bill Lumbergh |
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Richard Riehle | Tom Smykowski |
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Alexandra Wentworth | Anne |
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Joe Bays | Dom Portwood |
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John C. McGinley | Bob Slydell |
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Paul Willson | Bob Porter |
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Kinna McInroe | Nina |
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Todd Duffey | Chotchkie's Waiter |
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Greg Pitts | Drew |
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Michael McShane | Dr. Swanson |
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Linda Wakeman | Laura Smykowski |
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Jennifer Jane Emerson | Female Temp |
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Kyle Scott Jackson | Rob Newhouse |
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Orlando Jones | Steve |
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Barbara George-Reiss | Lumbergh's Secretary |
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Tom Schuster | Construction Foreman |
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Rupert Reyes | Mexican Waiter |
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Jackie Belvin | Swanson's Patient #1 |
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Gabriel Folse | Swanson's Patient #2 |
| Director | Mike Judge |
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| Writer | Mike Judge | |
| Producer | Mike Judge, Daniel Rappaport, Guy Riedel, Michael Rotenberg | |
| Musician | John Frizzell | |
| Photography | Tim Suhrstedt | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Subtitles | Danish | Dutch | Finnish | French | Italian | Norwegian | Spanish | Swedish |
| Distributor | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Oct 06, 2003 |