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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Mike Judge |
| Stars: |
Ron Livingston |
| Actors: |
John C. McGinley |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
VHS |
| UPC: |
024543167150 |
| Release Date: |
1999 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 29min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: 2-Disc Set; Checkpoint; Digital Copy; Sensormatic;Widescreen, 1hr 30min Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (September 23, 2008) UPC: 024543535027 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 29min Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (August 17, 1999) UPC: 086162142444 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Mike Judge |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2005, p.98, Peter Travers): 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." |
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| Details: |
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 ... |
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