Showing posts with label Ron Livingston. Show all posts
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Monday, 6 July 2015

Office Space (1999): ****



Office Space is set at the fictional software company Initech, one of those places where the cubicles are grey and so are the walls and ceiling. Everything is drab and the employees look washed out, fearful about being fired and trapped in their cubicles, forced to fill out boring paperwork. One such employee is Peter (Ron Livingston), who is frustrated with his dead-end job and the constant hassle he receives from his numerous bosses. At the behest of his girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth), Peter goes to a hypnotist Dr Swanson (Mike McShane) to receive some de-stressing therapy. During the therapy Peter falls under a trance where he has no cares or worries, but before Dr Swanson can snap him out of it he has a heart-attack and dies. Peter is completely relaxed as Anne breaks up with, he doesn’t bother going into work even whilst two consultants are busy pruning excess employees at Initech. Instead, he starts to date a waitress Joanna (Jennifer Anniston) who has been crushing on for ages. Later, Peter conducts a plan along with his cubicle buddies Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman) – no relation to the famous singer – to get back at Initech.