Clockwatchers
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Actor: Alanna Ubach, Helen FitzGerald, Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, Toni ColletteDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Wellspring Media
DVD Reviews of Clockwatchers
DVD Review: Not very funny, but relevant
Summary: 5 Stars
Parker Posey has seriously grown on me over the years. What I like about her movies are the emotional extremes they tend to evoke in people. Either you hate it or you think it's brilliant. Surprisingly most people lean toward the latter. 'Clockwatchers' is a wonderful example of this dynamic.
I see many people comparing this movie to Office Space and I believe they are doing the review readers a disservice. The only thing similar about the 2 movies is that they both take place in an office and they are both highly relatable to a certain segment of employees. The similarity ends there. They have both been considered dark comedies, but I don't see how either of them fit into that category. There was very little about Office Space that was dark and very little about Clockwatchers that was funny. With that said, I could relate to Clockwatchers on such a fundamental level that if it comes on cable, I can't resist watching it. Why? Because I get something new from it every single time I see it.
Most of the people who gave this movie a poor rating, were expecting a comedy. If you want to laugh and drift off into mindless entertainment, don't watch this. It was meant to evoke thought regarding work ambitions and behaviors and it succeeds brilliantly at doing that. If you work in an office setting, you should be able to find yourself somewhere in this movie and you may not like what you see. It's like entertainment counseling that forces you to look at yourself from the outside where it's much easier to see your flaws clearly. Offices should make this movie mandatory viewing for all incoming employees from the janitor to the CEO, so that people can start off with an understanding of how their work behaviors affect others.
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Description of Clockwatchers
Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette, Parker Posey and Alanna Ubach star in this all too true comedy about life at the office. These four young temps try to maintain their sanity on the job while maintaining upward mobility in this gal-pal comedy.Generation X falls into the mold. The back cover blurb of this video describes it as a "smart and wry Working Girl for a postmodern world"--but let's be clear. Actually, sisters Jill and Karen Sprecher have cowritten (and Jill Sprecher directed) a modernist dark comedy about working Generation Xers. Were it truly postmodern, it would not work so well--instead, the Sprechers have given us dark but funny commentary on working life as a temp. The clean, straight lines of cinematographer Jim Denault's aesthetic bolster the woman-against-the-world motif of the meaningless pursuit of full-time employment. Why four intelligent, capable women languish in perpetual boredom looking for this unfulfilling nirvana is not at issue, but it is this unquestioned conformity to tradition that frustrates the audience while letting us laugh at what is and is not happening.
Toni Collette's (Muriel's Wedding) portrayal of Iris is sharp: a shy, mousy, somewhat insecure twentysomething provides interior monologue, both through her voice-over commentary and the notebook diary she religiously keeps, and evolves over a year of temping at a credit company--but it is difficult to explain what she evolves into. She gains an understanding of friendship and betrayal, but at the cost of not even the least sentimentality. She asserts her personal desires for career that are in conflict with those of the working world and her father, but without reaching true fulfillment. She outgrows her don't-notice-me haircut to become an assertive, self-confident person, yet suffers intensely and silently when a handsome coworker doesn't recognize her on the street.
Strong performances from both Parker Posey and Lisa Kudrow (who since Friends and the witty Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion seems to be suffering increasingly from stereotyping) give Collette a solid surface off of which she bounces her quiet, psychological role to great satisfaction. --Erik Macki
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