Synopsis
The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
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Cast
- Toni ColletteIris Chapman
- Parker PoseyMargaret J. Burrell
- Lisa KudrowPaula
- Alanna UbachJane
- Helen FitzGeraldCleo
- Stanley DeSantisArt
- Jamie KennedyEddie
- David James ElliottMr. MacNamee
- Debra Jo RuppBarbara
- Kevin CooneyMr. Kilmer
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Clockwatchers is a wicked, subversive comedy about the hell on earth occupied by temporary office workers. - 80
Chicago Reader
This impressive first feature by Jill Sprecher, coscripting with her sister Karen, shows that she has an eye and ear all her own. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Clockwatchers may not be a Grapes of Wrath for the Nineties, but its intelligence, slow-boil outrage over grunt workers' dehumanization, and subtle assertion of their power to resist make it a terrific piece of pro-labor propaganda. - 75
ReelViews
Clockwatchers offers a perspective of the American corporate office that is both viciously satirical and depressingly accurate. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
On the surface, it's a mystery in which someone is going around stealing personal items, and the women are suspected -- and suspect each other. In a larger sense it's about how corporate culture is not only antithetical to individuality and human kindness but also hostile toward these things. - 75
The A.V. Club
The film's message, that it's impossible to trust in an environment that does not reward loyalty, is as dark as the message sent by the far more acidic In The Company Of Men. Though Clockwatchers doesn't feature the flashy language of that brutal film, it still reveals a similarly astute assessment of modern inter-office politics and workplace alienation. - 75
Baltimore Sun
Clockwatchers has a terrific, submerged feel, in keeping with its themes of corporate lassitude, isolation and paranoia. [24 Jul 1998] - 75
Boston Globe
Clockwatchers may not be perfect, but it's on to something. [22 May 1998, p.D5]
