Ron Livingston stars as Peter Gibbons, a soul-crushed programmer at the vaguely named software firm Initech. After a hypnotherapy session goes hilariously wrong (the hypnotist dies of a heart attack mid-trance), Peter snaps. He stops caring. He shows up to work in a rumpled red shirt, speaks his mind to the "two Bobs" (outside consultants brought in to downsize), and starts stealing fractions of pennies from the company. Alongside his fed-up coworkers (including a scene-stealing Stephen Root as the stapler-obsessed Milton), Peter devises a plan to get rich and escape the rat race.
Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Genre: Dark Comedy / Workplace Satire Director: Mike Judge The Review If you have ever sat in a cubicle, stared at a blinking cursor, or fantasized about taking a baseball bat to a malfunctioning printer, Office Space is your cinematic spirit animal. Released in 1999, Mike Judge’s live-action masterpiece was initially a box-office dud. But like a slow-acting virus in a TPS report, it spread through VHS and DVD rentals to become one of the most quoted and beloved comedies of all time. office space download
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