Office Space

How much we like a movie often depends on how closely we can relate it to our own lives or how far it allows us to escape from our own lives. Office Space is that rare movie that meets both these needs. Everyone who has worked in an office will relate to someone in the movie. This brilliantly low-key and low-budget film manages to mock life as a corporation myrmidon in America in just about every possible way. Have you been downsized? Youll love Office Space for its brilliant take on consultants. Have you lived in Dallas, Texas, the capital city of Generica? Youll love Office Space for its acerbic portrayal of life as an apartment rat. Have you been the pawn of intraoffice political power struggles? Youll love Office Space for the character Milton played by Stephen Root. The only people who wont love Office Space are those with IQs in the sub-100 range and corporate vice presidents. Sorry Lundbergh but I accidentally wiped my butt with the TPS reports.

Come on, it’s Office Space… can’t go wrong.

I have to admit Id never heard of OFFICE SPACE before it turned up as a plug on an Amazon e-mail. Now Ive seen it, Im glad I gave in to the temptation. This is an office comedy for sure, vaguely related to the celebrated 9 TO 5 but without the obvious star-power. In the same way, the comic situations can easily be identified as something uncomfortably close to the truth of the matter. (I suspect similar scenarios are played out daily down at the local City Hall...) Ron Livingston carries the picture with his good looks and a deft comedic style. Its a pity (maybe) that OFFICE SPACE arrived a little too late on the scene for Ron to team up with the major league of Tomlin, Fonda & Parton!

A classic! If youve ever worked in corporate America and/or in a cube farm, with 5 levels of managers above you about whom you honestly have no idea what they do all day, then youll find yourself in one of these cubes and characters. So if you like Dilbert, youll love this movie. Bonus: youll finally get all the TPS Report jokes!

There are two types of people in this world. People who like this movie. And people whose last name is “lumberg”

This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. I think anyone who has ever worked in an office will identify with all of the characters. There are days when I feel that the lead character played by Ron Livingston was based on my life. I must be having a case of the Mondays I used to work with a guy who insisted on only using his personal antique stapler. If anyone ever finds a hypnotist that can zap me into not knowing I went to work - please find me. Until then, I will continue to arrive late to work, enter through the back door, zone out for an hour pretending to work, and get an actual fifteen minutes of work done every day. This movie gets funnier every time. Everyone who commutes to work, especially in California, will also identify with the traffic scenes. After seein the movie, I can now at least smile a little thinking about how funny everyday, mundane life can really be.

I love this movie, very funny cult classic

When you work in tech, you can relate to every bit of it at some point in your life! This is a classic.

I missed seeing this one way back and rediscovered it on youtude when a work-internet sort of company was using some to the cast to recreate scenes of the movie for their Web-Collaboration Tele-Work product (extremely funny ads by the way).

We had this film on VHS, which we retired when DVDs became popular. But it is difficult to find older films sometimes on DVD. Office Space is a snarky, funny comedy about the woes of cubicle life in soulless offices. It still holds up, even after all these years.