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intereact!Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Diedrich Bader, Joe Bays, Josh Bond, and Gary Cole
Rated: R (Restricted)
Retail Price (not our price): $19.98
Release Date: 2000-08-31
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-02-19
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Run Time: 90 minutes
Format: Array
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
Ever spend eight hours in a "Productivity Bin"? Ever had worries about layoffs? Ever had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine? Ever had to endure a smarmy, condescending boss? Then Office Space should hit pretty close to home for you. 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 coworkers in the cube farm are an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronizing 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 coworkers (both of whom are slated for the chute) he devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scheme soon snowballs, however, throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day. Director Mike Judge has come up with 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 to a T. Jennifer Aniston plays Peter's love interest, a waitress at Chotchkie's, a generic beer-and-burger joint à la Chili's, and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey Show) has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter's mustached, long-haired, drywall-installin' neighbor. --Jerry Renshaw
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Whoever doesn't like this movie; something is wrong with you. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
The title says it all. This is one great movie, if you're thinking of purchasing it, I HIGHLY recommend it.2) What A Funny Movie!!! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I was going to say "best office comedy" but I didn't want to limit the recommendation. This is one of the best comedy's EVER...period. Having worked in a "big company" for the last 30 years I can say that this one hits VERY close to home. Yep, we even have "Milton" types where I work. This is one of my "desert island" movies and I would never give it up. Worth many many viewings. I loved it.3) Mike Judge is King [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This movie is so funny. After reading some of the bad reviews, it's apparent that some reviewers have never worked in an office or just simply don't have a sense of humor or don't understand sarcasm.A good indicator of if you'd enjoy this movie is if you agree with the following statements...Do you like satire? YESDo you like sarcasm? YESDoes the perky office person drive you crazy? YESDid you enjoy watching any episode of Beavis & Butthead or King of the Hill? YESAre you tired of your boss being a jerk? YESIf you ever worked in an office, you'd be able to relate to this movie. But it's not something you'd want your kids to watch if they're under 14.YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE if you want to laugh!4) Filled to the brim with flair; this is hilarity at its finest... [Rating: 5 out of 5]
In my circle of friends there is no film quoted, referenced or talked about as much as `Office Space'. It is the collective favorite; the one film we can all agree on to have entertained us in every way possible. Not a week goes by that this film is not mentioned among us and not once do we pass up an opportunity to watch this movie, even if only in part. For instance, this film has been in rotation on Comedy Central for the past few months and in those past few months my best friend and I have watched this movie, in whole or in part, at least twelve times. Why?It's that good.`Office Space' is truly one of the richest comedies I've ever seen. From the very start to the very end it delivers laugh after laugh, each as genuine as the one preceding. That I think is the kicker. Each joke, each gag, each laugh is just as purely entertaining as the last one, none of them fall south or feeling forced. Each scenario is so real and so relatable that it all becomes all the more hilarious because we feel as though we've been here before. Who hasn't had the condescending and overbearing boss who just can't seem to take a hint? Who hasn't had the obsessive compulsive co-working who can't seem to get out of your way? Who hasn't had that one pesky piece of office equipment that just won't seem to work right? Who hasn't had that overachieving co-working that just won't seem to get out from under your skin?The point is that `Office Space' could be re-titled `Your Life' in the essence that it is so real and down to earth. Sure, parts are exaggerated, but are they really?The story revolves around Peter Gibbons, a man who loathes his little cubicle of an office space at his horror show of a job and only wants to be free of the responsibilities of adulthood. His girlfriend is obviously cheating on him and wants for him to grow up. His friends all hate their jobs as much as he does but like Peter are too chicken to take any action about it. This is all until Bob Slydell is hired to evaluate who is really pulling their weight within the company and start making some cut-backs. This all happens just about the time that Peter is hypnotized and placed under a spell of serenity. While his friends Samir and Michael are fretting over losing their job Peter is slacking off, showing up late (if at all) and doing his best to upset his boss Mr. Lumbergh. Then the three friends concoct a plan to end their worrying forever, but of course it's going to backfire.Ron Livingston is brilliantly cast as Peter. His laid back portrayal of Peter is marvelous. Ajay Naidu does wonderful things with Samir, but it's David Herman that steals this entire film with his neurotic and aggressive portrayal of Michael Bolton (yup, you heard me right). Supporting parts played by Jennifer Aniston, Diedrich Bader and Gary Cole are sure to entertain and leave an impression and of course Stephen Roots portrayal of Milton is sure to elicit plenty of laughs.What is really great about `Office Space' is that it's not just out there to bash corporate America but in actuality it attacks the work environment in general. Sure Peter and his corporate business woes are prominent here but we are introduced to Joanna, Peters love interest, and her struggle with her waitressing job at Chotchkie's, a restaurant chain in the vein of TGI Fridays. As she battles with her boss obsessed with `flair' and being compared to her co-worker obsessed with kissing up and being teachers-pet so-to-speak we see the ugly side of the workplace from a whole different perspective. It's such a well rounded comedy that you can't help but appreciate the irony. I can't think of enough good things to say about this hilarious satire. All I can say is see this movie again and again for optimum enjoyment and laugh your butt off. You deserve it. You work all week long and have little to show for it. It's about time you embrace your own misery and find all the humor there is to find in your puppet dance for the man.5) Funy, thats all I have to say. [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I laughed, I cried, I enjoyed this movie uncut and without commercials. This movie was more of a psychological trip for me. I liked the way the main character evaluated life and kept it true. When you watch this, try to make connections of the story and yourself, and laugh along with it. This is a story of a man who has work troubles and relationship troubles and all of a sudden realizes where he is at. he sees a hypnotist, who dies as he is hypnotizing him. A world of something completely different happens while the main character stays hypnotized as he changes the world to better fit his comfort. He begins to take control of his life, to change work and to ignore the people he once hated. Office space pushed down walls and made an attack on every day life, and it was probably one of the funniest movies I had ever seen in my life."yeeeah hi" "were gonna need you to move to storage B"