Film Review: OFFICE SPACE, 1999

Tribute review for actor Gary Cole, born today September 20th.

OFFICE SPACE, 1999
Movie Reviews

Directed by Mike Judge
Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston
Review by Matt Lohr

SYNOPSIS:

Peter Gibbons, thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, decides not to go to work at the same time his company is laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from the company into their account.

REVIEW:

Mike Judge’s Office Space is a movie for me. And a movie for you. And really, a movie for anyone who’s ever worked what I call a “joe job”, a job so mentally undemanding and essentially meaningless that any joe can do it. Supervised by idiots who treat you like a bigger idiot, besieged by obnoxious co-workers, strait-jacketed by nonsensical company policy…we’ve all been there, and if Judge hasn’t, he certainly fooled me, because…