Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) doesn’t exactly exude cool friendship vibes, but he’s exactly the sort of person any rising Hollywood star would feel compelled to befriend in the workplace, even with the full knowledge that he’s probably inches away from ruining your career. And that’s saying something.Īffection is hardly the name of the game in Robert Altman’s classic send-up of the film industry, but the 1992 Oscar nominee nails it when it comes to (mostly hilariously) dramatizing the complicated and often bizarre relationships that spring up on the lot. Written and directed by Mike Judge, whose HBO series “Silicon Valley” unites a similar band of weirdos, “Office Space” has the kind of workplace friends who you’d want to smash a printer in a field with. When Peter finds out that his friends’ termination is iminent, the gang bands together to rip off the company on their way out. Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is an IT worker who spends most of his days dangerously bored and mistreated by much of the office staff around him, except for two fellow office misfits who commiserate to soften the blow of their mind numbing and often demoralizing job. “Office Space” (1999)Įveryone who’s ever spent their workday staring at a computer rather than working on one: This one’s for you. Even after the harrowing end, Simon’s affection for Hannah still serves as an apt example of the kinds of friendships that make you a better person, even while you’re working on something else. When his suave double begins to upstage him at the same office, Simon is forced to put everything on the line in order to protect his office paramour, coming alive in the process. There, Simon wiles the days away fixated on Hannah (Mia Wasikowska), who he sighs at from the copy room and spies on through telescopes. Richard Ayoade’s wonderfully weird 2013 Dostoyevsky adaptation spends much of its time in an office that far more resembles the bellows of a ship than a place of work. For Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) in “ The Double,” that “something” means accidentally manifesting your very own doppelganger. When “workplace friendship” turns to “workplace light-stalking,” something is bound to happen. At the end of the day, the only thing that makes the soulless work day easier is the vibe of friendship, and for that “ Clerks” will always be a lynchpin of work movies. Like every person who has ever worked a dead end, small-town job - which, let’s face it, is every single one of us - Dante Hicks (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) find hope in their workplace purgatory by viewing the world through the same slacker prism, where even the most trivial tasks (rooftop hockey) or conversations (mostly about “Star Wars”) become colossally important. While its cultural status in relationship to its dirt cheap production is something of a miracle, it’s precisely its scrappy, blue collar charm that finds its way into its central relationships and makes the experience so humorously relatable. Shot in black and white and for less than $30,000, Kevin Smith’s breakout comedy is one of the classic staples of the 1990s American independent film movement. ‘Clerks III’ Trailer: Kevin Smith Is Back as Silent Bob in Long-Awaited, Star-Studded Meta Sequel “Clerks” (1994)
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