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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019798846
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Wellspring Media
Manufacturer: Wellspring Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Wellspring Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 11395
Studio: Wellspring Media
Theatrical Release Date: May 15, 1998
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Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Clockwatchers
This is an outstanding flick! To my mind, a chick flick's version of Office Space!
Enjoy!
Rating: - A Brilliant film. Oscar caliber perfomances from Parker Posey and Toni Collette. The Best picture of 1998
Clockwatchers is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. An inspired film full of original ideas, this thought-provoking brilliant satire that makes clever social commentary about how a workplace environment dehumanizes the people who work in it. Underlying the dark humor in the film are some powerful truths about the world of work.
Clockwatchers follows the story four temporary workers Iris, a shy woman contemplating her future in the working world, Margaret a brilliant free spirit whose dynamic personality hides her vulnerabilities, Paula, an older woman running out of time to achieve her dreams of becoming an actress, and Jane, a woman biding time with a job until she gets married to her dream man. Global Credit's indifferent employees don't see them as people with dreams and futures; just butts to fill seats so the company looks busy. So the four bide their time doing mindless tasks in this brain-numbing environment complete with tortuous lite muzak, bright florescent lights and drab gray furniture. Because they're temps no one sees them. To get a semblance visibility from someone in the company the four act in passive aggressive manner at work: Paula constantly breaking the copier with paper clips; Margaret's destroying the desk to state she was there, Jane's constant personal calls and Iris writing in a journal. To cope with the isolation on the job, the four temps become friends and even hang out after work.
As the women start to grow closer, they change: ... Read More
Rating: - I love this movie!
For anyone who gave this movie anything less of 5 stars is out of their mind. They can go back to watching their dukes of hazzards and Starsky and Hutch. I knew immediately after I found out who was in this film that I was gonna love it and it certainly didn't dissapoint! Toni collette gives a brilliant performance as a woman struggling to find her place amongst other women on the same path as her who are just 'waiting for something to happen' and in some cases it didn't happen. Parker Posey and Lisa Kudrow also give great performances in this lowkey comedy/coming of age/hilarious/you go girl films. I was just angry that the theif didn't get more of what was coming to them for breaking the 4 characters friendship. Buy this film now, you won't be sorry!
Rating:  - Boring, Not Funny
I must have missed something, because this was one of the most boring, pointless movies that I have ever seen. I kept waiting for something to happen, but it NEVER did. If you want to see a funny office environment movie, see "Office Space." This movie is awful.
Rating: - Not ha ha funny...
More kinda like- it hurts when I laugh funny
Ironically, they had great actors and material to work with but the final product lacked the punch line to complete the joke.
If Clockwatchers is truly in the comedy category - It doesn't merit even a single star
This comedy was on my Amazon recommended list, and since I never heard of it before I decided to pick it up. I briefly skimmed all 54 reviews before hand, and even found some of the reviewers on my Amazon friends list giving it high marks - so I figured what the heck. Some of the reviews compared Clockwatchers to Office Space another movie about life in corporate America. Having previously seen Office Space I had very high expectations for this film. Yes the two are set in an office and yes both are dark comedies, the only problem is that Clockwatchers unlike Office Space isn't funny. I sat just waiting for something to happen and nothing ever did. I remember laughing a couple of times, once when Iris after a couple of failed attempts to type finally hides the numerous 'expensive' mis-typed invoices in her purse and then goes to the company restroom to dispose of them and the other time was when later in the movie she uses the stapler to hem her skirt.
Overall I would have to say Clockwatchers is a missed opportunity, with a great cast of characters.
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