Office Space (Full Screen) (1999)

Director: Mike Judge  Starring: Jennifer Aniston  Ron Livingston  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Foxvideo
Format: DVD
UPC: 00024543044994
Buy.com Sku: 40169545
Item#: VD5JFJ
Category Keywords: Essential Cinema  Theatrical Release 
Rating: 
 
Work sucks.
 
 
Features: DVD, Full Picture Aspect Ratio, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Theatrical Trailer, Spanish, English Subtitles
 
Overwhelmed by stress on the job, Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) goes in for therapy and comes out with a life-changing career philosophy: work sucks. Eager to begin a new life of unemployment, he decides to spend more time with his sexy girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston) and less time at the office. When he does show up, it's only to play computer games, destroy company property and tell his boss exactly where to stick those meaningless memos. But rather than get fired, Peter's 'straight-shooting' attitude lands him a promotion! Now the stage is set to carry out a high-tech embezzling scheme that's sure to mean the end of his job...and a one-way ticket to easy street. Can he pull it off before all corporate hell breaks loose?
 
"Sharp & funny."  Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Time
"Comedic fantasy."  WBAI Radio
"A savage comedy."  Roger Ebert

 


Editor's Note

This geeky 1999 office comedy starring Ron Livingston as a corporate Everyman instantly gained cult status for its unabashed caricatures of office personalities, and its theme of corporate sabotage. Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a typical middle manager living a mundane life amid a gray maze of cubicles. Everything in his life reeks of mediocrity, from the mid-size car he drives to the chain restaurant, Chotchky's (read: TGI Friday's), where he eats lunch every day. Even his apartment, a cookie-cutter duplex with walls so thin that he can chat with his next-door neighborhood through the plaster, is totally lacking in personality. The company where he works is peppered with ambitionless drones who blindly comply with the condescending requests made of them by their Porsche-driving CEO (Gary Cole). Then one day, Gibbons snaps. As a team of experts is brought in to enact large-scale layoffs, Gibbons simply stops trying and adopts an attitude of total disinterest. That is, he's only interested in dating the blond waitress (Jennifer Anniston) at the local restaurant, and putting in place a devilish scheme for some corporate payback.

OFFICE SPACE's writer-director Mike Judge (BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD), scares up some A-list laughs with this film, while also making an excellent parody of corporate culture. Released just as the dot-com boom began to go bust, with massive trends in corporate downsizing on the horizon, it could not have been better timed. Thus, while viewers will delight in the absurdity of the ultimate office loser Milton (Stephen Root), they will also identify with some frighteningly realistic aspects of the film.

 

Features
Interactive Menus
Audio: English Dolby Surround, French
Scene Access
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu Screens
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Foxvideo
Release Date: 8/27/2002
Running Time: 90 minutes
Original Release Date: 1999
Catalog ID: 2004499
UPC: 00024543044994
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
4:3

 
Cast & Crew
David Herman
Jennifer Aniston
Ron Livingston
Stephen Root
Mike Judge - Director
John Frizzell - Musical Score
Daniel Rappaport - Producer
Mike Judge - Screenplay

 
Professional Reviews
Box Office
"...Viciously wry humor....Hilarious....OFFICE SPACE is ruthlessly funny stuff..." 04/01/1999 p.235

USA Today
"...[Judge] possesses an eye for the uncensored truths of our daily lives....If you've ever had a job, you'll be amused by this paean to peons..." 02/19/1999 p.13E

Los Angeles Times
"...Sharp and funny....Bristling with shrewd observation, inspired humor and all-around smarts, OFFICE SPACE is a winner..." 02/19/1999 p.F6

Chicago Sun-Times
"...OFFICE SPACE is a comic cry of rage against the nightmare of modern office life....The movie's dialogue is smart..." 02/19/1999 p.30

Sight and Sound
"...Almost painfully comic..." 01/01/2000 p.64

Uncut
"[O]ften screamingly funny." 01/01/2004 p.141

Entertainment Weekly
"[A] pic in which even tiny performances are gems..." -- Grade: B 11/04/2005 p.58

Premiere
3 stars out of 4 -- "[I]f you don't know how many pieces of flair you should be wearing or why the Swingline stapler is so much better than the Boston, then by all means skip happy hour tonight and get to watching." 12/01/2005 p.182

Rolling Stone
Ranked #17 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he new disc has eight deleted scenes to up the fun quotient, which was already high." 12/01/2005 p.98

Orlando Weekly 7 of 10
...often riotously funny live-action debut from Texan animator Mike Judge, creator of television's Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill... Judge...has come up with an original take on the banalities and frustrations endemic to the working world. The familiarity of the setting adds an appealing edginess to the comedy. - Philip Booth
 

  
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