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Samir (Ajay Naidu), Michael (David Herman) and Peter (Ron Livingston) have a rough Monday at work.

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: Todd Duffey, David Herman, Ron Livingston, Ajay Naidu, Jennifer Jane Emerson
Director: Mike Judge
Producers: Daniel Rappaport, Guy Riedel, Michael Rotenberg, Mike Judge
Screenwriter: Mike Judge

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Transcript
00:00No, not again, I...
00:03Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?
00:06I swear to God, one of these days I just kick this piece of shit out the window.
00:11You and me both, man.
00:13Thing is lucky I'm not armed.
00:16Piece of shit.
00:18Sam... Iron...
00:20Na... Na... Na... Naga...
00:24No.
00:25Uh-huh.
00:26Please.
00:27Michael...
00:29Bolton?
00:31That's me.
00:32Wow, is that your real name?
00:34Yeah.
00:36So are you related to that singer guy?
00:38No, it's just a coincidence.
00:40Oh.
00:43No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right.
00:46It's not that hard.
00:48Na-i-i-na-na-jad. Na-i-na-na-jad.
00:50Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
00:53You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
00:56There was nothing wrong with it.
00:58Until I was about 12 years old.
00:59And that no-talent ass-clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
01:05Why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
01:08No way.
01:09Why should I change?
01:10He's the one who sucks.
01:11Hey, guys.
01:12What's up, G?
01:13Wanna go to tchotchkes?
01:14Get some coffee?
01:15It's a little early of it.
01:17I gotta get out of here.
01:18I think I'm gonna lose it.
01:19Uh-oh.
01:20Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.
01:28Boy, I tell you, some days...
01:30One of these days, it's just gonna be like...
01:36So can I get you, gentlemen, something more to drink?
01:38Or maybe something to nibble on?
01:39Some pizza shooters, shrimp poppers, or extreme fajitas?
01:42Just coffee.
01:43Okay.
01:44Sounds like a case of the Mondays.
02:12how to noi abicken him?
02:17Exactly.
02:19See you later.

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