Bartleby

Herman Melville's short story -Bartleby the Scrivener gets a slightly surreal update in this offbeat comedy drama. The manager (David Paymer) of the city records department in a mid-sized California community decides that his staff of three -- flirty chatterbox Vivian (Glenne Headly), sloppy Vietnam ...more

The opening credits of Bartleby begin with the bleak observation that following the publication of -Bartleby the Scrivener, the story's author, Herman Melville, was relegated to obscurity and eventually died alone and destitute. This tragic fact may at first seem a mere curious observation when one considers that the author had previously penned -Moby Dick, one of the greatest adventures of all time, but it becomes sadly symbolic when paralleled with the ultimate fate of Bartleby. Advertised as ...more