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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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Transcript
00:00Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking.
00:02Hello, Peter. What's happening?
00:05Uh, we have sort of a problem here.
00:08Yeah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports.
00:13Oh, yeah. I'm sorry about that. I forgot.
00:17Mm, yeah.
00:19You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out.
00:24Did you see the memo about this?
00:26Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I have the memo right here.
00:29I just, uh, forgot.
00:31But, uh, it's not shipping out till tomorrow, so there's no problem.
00:35Yeah.
00:36If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that would be great.
00:41And, uh, I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo.
00:45Okay.
00:46Yeah, no, I have the memo. I've got it. It's right.
00:49Hello, Phil. What's happening?
00:52Um, I can't find him yesterday.
00:55Um, I can't find him.
00:56Um, I can't find him.
00:58We discovered in a Spanish shipwreck off the coast of Spain.
01:01Milton.
01:03Hi. Uh, could you turn that down just a little bit?
01:06Well, I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11.
01:11Yeah, no, no, I know you're allowed to. I, uh, I was just thinking maybe like a, you know, personal favor.
01:17Well, I, I, I told Bill that if, if Sandra's going to listen to her headphones while she's, while she's falling,
01:25then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating.
01:27So I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from 9 to 11.
01:35Milton.
01:36Hi, Peter. What's happening?
01:39We need to talk about your TPS reports.
01:42Yeah, the cover sheet. I know. I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
01:46Yeah. Did you get that memo?
01:48Yeah, I got the memo. And I understand the policy.
01:51And the problem is just that I forgot the one time and I've already taken care of it.
01:55So it's not even really a problem anymore.
01:57Ah, yeah.
02:00It's just we're putting new cover sheets on all the TPS reports before they go out now.
02:04So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great.
02:09All right.
02:09All right.
02:25All right.
02:40All right.

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