Synopsis
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.
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Cast
- Ron LivingstonPeter Gibbons
- Jennifer AnistonJoanna
- David HermanMichael Bolton
- Ajay NaiduSamir Nagheenanajar
- Diedrich BaderLawrence
- Stephen RootMilton Waddams
- Gary ColeBill Lumbergh
- Richard RiehleTom Smykowski
- Ali WentworthAnne
- Joe BaysDom Portwood
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts, Office Space is a winner about a guy who's beginning to feel like a loser. - 80
Film Threat
For the most part, the film is brilliant. - 80
Salon
Its characters and its nowheresville setting are uncannily realized... It's not a cartoon in any sense, but an honest-to-God movie with some fine, understated acting and a human heart. - 80
New Times (L.A.)
Office Space's pleasures don't really depend on plot. It's pretty much what a Dilbert feature should look like. - 78
Austin Chronicle
The storyline is something of a hodge-podge but what the narrative lacks in honing and straight-ahead storytelling it more than makes up for with well-aimed barbs and acutely focused observations...this funny, funny satire gets us where we live. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie's dialogue is smart. It doesn't just chug along making plot points. - 70
Washington Post
I could love it only as far as it let me. Although the movie has hilarious moments throughout, its thematic thinness is writ fairly large on the big screen. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Drably shot, unimaginatively written and shallowly acted, it's a poor example of the "daffy, goofy, sex-crazed guys" occupational comedies that flourished throughout the job-obsessed '80s. [19 Feb 1999]
