Swanson hypnotises Peter and tells him to feel relaxed and stop caring about his job until he snaps his fingers. He makes Peter work almost every weekend.Īnne persuades Peter to attend an occupational hypnotherapy session led by Dr. He makes Milton move desks constantly, takes his beloved red stapler, and makes him do more and more work. Lumbergh takes obvious delight in micromanaging all his staff particularly Milton and Peter. The staff suffers under top-heavy, callous management, especially from Initech's vice president Bill Lumbergh, whom Peter hates and avoids confronting. Also there is Tom Sakowski a jaded man who helps the engineer communicate with customers. Another co-worker in the office is Milton Waddams, a meek collator who is mostly ignored by the rest of the office except Peter.
He is friends with co-workers Samir Nagheenanajar who loathes that no one can ever say his last name correctly and Michael Bolton (who loathes being associated with the famous singer of the same name). Peter is in love with local waitress Joanne (Jennifer Aniston) but is too afraid to speak to her also already in a relationship with his overcritical girlfriend Anne who he has trouble standing up to. Peter Gibbons is a frustrated and unmotivated programmer who works at Initech. Judge's 2009 film Extract is also set in an office and was intended as a companion piece to Office Space. Swingline introduced a red stapler to its product line after the Milton character used one painted that color in the film. A scene where the three main characters systematically destroy a dysfunctional printer has been widely parodied. Several aspects of the film have become Internet memes. It was a box office disappointment, making $12.2 million on a $10 million production budget however, after repeated airings on Comedy Central, it sold well on home video, and has become a cult film. The film's sympathetic depiction of ordinary information technology workers garnered a cult following within that field, but it also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees and the workforce in general.
It is based on Judge's Milton cartoon series and was his first foray into live-action filmmaking and his second full-length motion picture release, following Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Office Space was filmed in Dallas and Austin, Texas. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. It satirizes the worklife of a typical 1990s software company, focusing on a handful of individuals weary of their jobs. Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge.
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