Clockwatchers (1997)
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83% of critics liked it
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Four women reflect on their lowly place in the corporate caste system in this dryly satiric comedy. Iris (Toni Collette) is a college graduate who hasn't decided what she wants to do with her life, except that she doesn't want the job her father has lined up for her at a frozen food company.… More Four women reflect on their lowly place in the corporate caste system in this dryly satiric comedy. Iris (Toni Collette) is a college graduate who hasn't decided what she wants to do with her life, except that she doesn't want the job her father has lined up for her at a frozen food company. While pretending to look for other work, she signs on with a temp agency, which sends her out to do office work for Global Credit, a particularly faceless corporation where the permanent employees go out of their way to avoid the temps. Iris is very much aware that she's at the bottom rung at Global, and she bonds with three other women in the temp pool. Paula (Lisa Kudrow) talks about her career as an actress and insists that she will only temp until one of her auditions pans out. Jane (Alanna Ubach) prattles on about her wealthy fiancé, although her friends are convinced that he's cheating on her. And Margaret (Parker Posey) is at once the rebel of the group, regarding her job and general office procedure with a barely disguised contempt, and the one who most desperately wants a "real" job with Global. When office supplies and various personal items start to disappear, all signs point to one of the temp workers (most likely Margaret), though none will own up to any wrongdoing. Clockwatchers was the directorial debut for filmmaker Jill Sprecher, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Karen Sprecher. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jill Sprecher, Lisa Sprecher
- Written By
- Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- May 15, 1998 Wide
- Studio
- BMG
Critic Reviews
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David Noh, Film Journal International
You just want to shake these four twits out of their collective, weirdly unsubstantiated malaise.
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Insightful and well-acted comedy of inter-office angst.
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Carlo Cavagna, AboutFilm.com
Like the unrelenting Musack that fills the heroines's offices, Clockwatchers is a bit too sedate. If you don't watch carefully, you'll miss half the fun.
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Jon Niccum, Lawrence Journal-World
Expertly captures the drudgery of 9-5 office gigs
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Complex characterization makes Clockwatchers a far more interesting picture than it would have been as a simple, breezy comedy.
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Cast
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Toni Collette
as Iris
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Parker Posey
as Margaret
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Lisa Kudrow
as Paula
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Alanna Ubach
as Jane
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Kevin Cooney
as Mr. Kilmer
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Stanley de Santis
as Art
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Paul Dooley
as Bud Chapman
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Helen FitzGerald
as Cleo
- Joshua Malina
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Debra Jo Rupp
as Barbara
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Bob Balaban
as Milton Lasky
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David James Elliott
as MacNamee
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Jamie Kennedy
as Eddie
