Office Space: From Cooler Talk to Cult Hit
Office Space: From Cooler Talk to Cult Hit
Office Space, an American comedy film that satirizes the working life of a number of fed up individuals who work for a large software company, flopped at the big screen. When it was first released back in 1999, critics were largely unimpressed. The New York Times wrote: “It has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn’t gather much momentum”; Entertainment Weekly deemed it “cramped and under-imagined.”
The story focused on Peter Gibbons, an employee of the software company Initech, who spends his working days adjusting banking software code to prepare for the Y2k disaster – which at the end of the 90s was a much talked about “threat”. Peter is bored, tired, fed up and hates his job and everything about the company he works for, especially his boss “Lumbergh” who frequently makes Peter come
