Office Space (1/5) Movie CLIP - Did You Get the Memo? (1999) HD

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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Peter (Ron Livingston) gets grilled by his bosses for not having the right cover sheet on his T.P.S. report.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his cookie-cutter apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it -- so every day is the worst of his life. To cap it off, Initech has hired a pair of "efficiency experts" to downsize the company. One Friday night, Peter's soon to be ex-girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) forces him to go to an occupational hypnotherapist to relieve work stress. While Peter is under hypnosis, the therapist keels over and dies. As he never snaps out of his hypnotic state, Peter has a new outlook on life. If something annoys him, he just ignores it or walks away from it. He is completely relaxed and enjoying life for the first time in a long time. On Monday, Peter skips work and sleeps in. He gets up for lunch and drives down to a restaurant next to his office and asks the waitress he's had a crush on, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), on a date. When Peter stops into the office to pick up his organizer, he's called in to talk to the efficiency experts. Relaxed and friendly, Peter charms them as he describes everything wrong with the office, including his boss. Even as Peter now appears at work only as the mood strikes him, the experts decide he's management material and give him a promotion even as they lay off the hardworking Samir and Michael. Peter then convinces his friends to exact revenge on Initech based upon an idea from Superman III. Not everything works out quite as planned. Office Space originated from writer/director Mike Judge's first animated short of the same name, created in 1991. The short was about Milton (reproduced in the film by Stephen Root), a damaged office drone whose complaints and threats about his sufferings go unheeded.

CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1999)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Joe Bays, Gary Cole, Ron Livingston, Stephen Root
Director: Mike Judge
Producers: Daniel Rappaport, Guy Riedel, Michael Rotenberg, Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge

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[Charlie]

Before I entered the work force I thought this was just an awesome comedy.

Once I started working I realized it was a dark comedy.

[samjames]

I love this. It accurately sums up two things about the corporate world:

1) There are more middle managers than people actually doing the work.
2) The managers have no clue about the work their employees actually do, so they focus on tiny inconsequential things that they can understand like cover sheets.

[esasoftware]

One of the funniest movies about corp life I've ever seen. (1) They don't listen. (2) They don't care. (3) The most minor thing is the most important thing in the universe. (4) Actual work does not matter. (5) Honest hard working people are shafted. (6) The undeserving are promoted. ALL TRUE!

[lilyblueharsh]

The scariest thing about office space isn't growing up and realizing it's all true - it's realizing that the fact that it's so relevant even decades later means that nothing has changed since then

[Holly-twbt]

It's the nagging about a minor mistake from multiple "bosses" through multiple communication methods. Once I accidentally copied the wrong person on an email and half the office felt the need to let me know and remind me not to do that.

[stockjonebills]

Whats sad, is although things are exaggerated a bit, this isn't far from the truth in most large companies.

[Atombender]

1999: Great comedy movie
2009: Great horror movie
2019: Great documentary

[psiturbo]

Nothing more humiliating than the pat on the back.

[TrollMeister_]

The office layout is soo reminiscent of the 90s and early 2000s. Almost makes me nostalgic. In the 2010s corporations realized they could save more money by getting rid of the walls and cramming more people together like sardines in a can and calling it "collaborative workspace"

[surfercharlie]

0:50 - I love how you can hear Gary Cole use the EXACT same greeting and cadence over again. I’ve had so many managers like that!

[lauriebeckstead]

This is isn't an exaggeration, this is reality

[MountainMan.]

Made in '99 and this movie still perfectly encapsulates what it is like to work in corporate America to this very day. The acting in this movie is elite level.

[kurtdewitt]

I was told that I could listen to youtube at a reasonable volume between 9 and 11.

[nickmusicman]

The way Milton looks at Peter when he first goes over his cubicle. Gets me laughing every time

[mastercontrolprogram]

Anyone who has worked at an office can relate to this. At least three people telling you the same thing before your Supervisor calling you into their office, tells you to shut the door then tells you that you have an attitude problem because you lost it on the third person.

[shambolicrhetoric]

This is SO realistic of what working in an office is like. It's basically a bunch of narcissists trotting around poking their nose into other peoples business so they can avoid actually doing work themselves.

[tmrezzek]

That from the boss is (unfortunately) 100% on the fucking money for a corporate workplace.

[Paraprax]

This movie is a strong example of why Oscars for writing and performances should be given out ten years after the film comes out instead of in the heat of the moment.

[lichtfilme]

The actor who plays his boss gets way too little credit, he’s so great 😄😄😄

[keithyw]

they should make it illegal to have more than a single manager