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15 May 1998 (USA) moreTagline:
FOUR GIRLS. FOUR DREAMS. ONE OFFICE. morePlot:
Iris can best be described as a wallflower. She begins her first day as a temp for the nondescript Global... more | full synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
A masterpiece in a minor key more (109 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toni Collette | ... | Iris Chapman | |
| Parker Posey | ... | Margaret Burre | |
| Lisa Kudrow | ... | Paula | |
| Alanna Ubach | ... | Jane | |
| Helen FitzGerald | ... | Cleo | |
| Stanley DeSantis | ... | Art | |
| Jamie Kennedy | ... | Eddie | |
| David James Elliott | ... | Mr. MacNamee | |
| Debra Jo Rupp | ... | Barbara | |
| Kevin Cooney | ... | Mr. Kilmer | |
| Bob Balaban | ... | Milton Lasky | |
| Paul Dooley | ... | Bud Chapman | |
| Scott Mosenson | ... | Jack Shoberg | |
| Irene Olga López | ... | Coffee Lady (as Irene Olga Lopez) | |
| Joshua Malina | ... | Global Credit Receptionist |
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Continuity: When Iris and Margaret are at Margaret's apartment, Iris is holding a small ashtray and Margaret says she got it from a hotel. In the next shot Iris holding what appears to be a small dish of food, or even a microwave dinner platter. moreQuotes:
Margaret: What happened?Iris Chapman: I guess, I'm just not like you.
Margaret: Yah know it's sad, isn't it, how people always end up betraying each other? And for what?
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Blistering black comedy co-written by Jill Sprecher (who also directed) and Karen Sprecher, "Clockwatchers" gives us a suffocating office setting so vivid and real I half-expected my own co-workers to show up in it. Toni Collette plays the new temporary in a nondescript building wherein office-incidentals are slowly disappearing from the supply cabinet. The ensemble acting is delightfully accurate, and the strife which ensues in this scenario is comically overwrought and horrifying. Sprecher's direction is focused and brave (no overtures to broadly comical sensibilities), and she nimbly stretches the film's satirical edge quite far without faltering. The movie is a genuine American original, and by the final third I couldn't wait to see it again from the start. ***1/2 from ****