Clockwatchers

Four women reflect on their lowly place in the corporate caste system in this dryly satiric comedy. Iris (Toni Collette) is a college graduate who hasn't decided what she wants to do with her life, except that she doesn't want the job her father has lined up for her at a frozen food company. While ...more

Why more films are not set in the office environment, where most human beings spend the bulk of their waking hours, is a cinematic puzzle. Seemingly serene and stifling on the surface, the carpeted walls and halls of the modern-day company are fraught with more romantic passion, political intrigue, and sheer comic possibility than is contained in the greatest works of Shakespeare. A handful of films are baffling Hollywood's marketing strategists in the late 20th century by bravely attempting to ...more