Synopsis
The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby clearing the way for Joel to have an affair with Cindy, an employee. But what Joel doesn't know is that Cindy is a sociopathic con artist, and a freak workplace accident clears the way for her to ruin Joel forever.
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Cast
- Jason BatemanJoel
- Mila KunisCindy
- Kristen WiigSuzie
- Ben AffleckDean
- J.K. SimmonsBrian
- Clifton Collins Jr.Step
- Dustin MilliganBrad
- David KoechnerNathan
- Beth GrantMary
- T.J. MillerRory
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
The movie is characterized by its crisp, cutting, classical framing, and comic timing. The style and approach recall classic Albert Brooks. Indeed, the beleaguered, cuckolded Joel would have been a great role for the young Brooks--adding a certain self-aggrandizing je ne sais quoi or a neurotic zetz that the appealing, but bland, Bateman lacks. - 63
ReelViews
Extract is no masterpiece, but it's considerably better than many 2009 films that have received a more robust backing. - 63
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Extract has some flavor, but the comedic kick is diluted by flat characters and a thin story. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Sort of entertaining, but lacks the focus and comic energy of Judge's "Office Space" (1999), and to believe that Suzie would be attracted to the gigolo requires not merely the suspension of disbelief, but its demolition. - 63
Miami Herald
Although never boring and almost continually amusing, Extract doesn't work as a movie because you don't buy a minute of it, even as silly satire. - 60
Time Out
Extract, for all its surface reminders of Judge’s 1999 cult hit, "Office Space" (it’s set around a suburban bottling plant), shows its maker taking the smallest step toward lesser comic matters of infidelity and bong abuse. It feels slightly beneath him. That’s not to say you should skip it. - 60
Dallas Observer
The jokes in Extract play almost like afterthoughts, the last-second add-ons of a former animator who, until now, has always treated his flesh-and-blood characters a bit like cartoon caricatures and vice versa. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Couldn't Mike Judge, with his acid wit, have come up with a better title for a suburban-schlub comedy than ?Extract?
