Office Space
Office Space is a 1999 American satirical black comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge. It satirizes the work life of a typical 1990s software company, focusing on a handful of individuals weary of their jobs. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. Office Space was filmed in Dallas and Austin, Texas. It is based on Judge's Milton cartoon series and was his first foray into live-action filmmaking. The film was Judge's second full-length motion picture release, following Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. It was released in theaters on February 19, 1999, by 20th Century Fox. Its sympathetic depiction of ordinary information technology workers garnered a cult following within that field, but it also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees and the workforce in general. It was a box office disappointment, making $12.2 million on a $10 million production budget; however, it sold well on home video, and has become a cult film. Several aspects of the film have become Internet memes. A scene in which the three main characters systematically destroy a dysfunctional printer has been widely parodied. Swingline introduced a red stapler to its product line after the Milton character used one painted in that color in the film. Judge's 2009 film Extract is also set in an office and was intended as a companion piece to Office Space.
Look, I'm very sorry. I do not know anything about any money laundering. We're not asking you about money laundering. All we need is for you to hook us... If he doesn't know anybody... No. Wait a minute. Look, you just give us the name of one drug dealer. I could talk to him. I have good networking skill. I lied. All that stuff I said about being a crackhead... just helps me sell magazines. I'm actually an unemployed software engineer.
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- You're a software engineer? - Yep. Things, they must be very rough for you. Actually, man... I make more money selling magazine subscriptions... than I ever did at Initrode. Heh. At Initrode? Wait a minute, you're not gonna tell anybody... about all this stuff we told you. I mean, we know a lot of the same people. That's...
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You know what I can't figure out? How is it that all these stupid Neanderthal Mafia guys... can be so good at crime... and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it? We're new to it, though. If we had more experience... No. You know what I think? I think we're screwed. I think there's enough evidence... all over that building to link us to this. Even if we could launder money, I wouldn't want to. What we've done is bad enough. We get caught laundering money... we're not going to white-collar resort prison. No. We're going to federal "pound me in the ass" prison. I don't want to go to any prison. Why the hell did I do this? I've never done anything wrong in my whole life. We weren't thinking clearly... because you told us we were losing our jobs. Now look at us, we're worried about going in a prison. Don't worry about it. I'll think of something.
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Joanna, I want to apologise. I had no right to get pissed off at you about Lumbergh. Lumbergh is not my problem. It wasn't even the right Lumbergh. I don't know why I can't just... Go to work and be happy... like I'm supposed to, like everybody else. Peter, most people don't like their jobs. But you go out there and find something that makes you happy. Yeah. Well...
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