Clockwatchers

1997

Action / Comedy / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 62% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 62% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 7492 7.5K

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Plot summary

Four female temps working for a credit company find their friendship threatened by the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.

Director

Jill Sprecher Photo
Jill Sprecher

Top cast

Patti Yasutake Photo
Patti Yasutake as Theater Woman
Paul Dooley Photo
Paul Dooley as Bud Chapman
Toni Collette Photo
Toni Collette as Iris
Parker Posey Photo
Parker Posey as Margaret
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879.29 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 2
1.76 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by coiled 7 / 10

Quietly funny and strangely haunting

For some reason I'd been resisting seeing this film until a friend thrust it into my hands and said, "C'mon, Toni Collette and Parker Posey, how can you go wrong?"Maybe I was resisting because I didn't want to see my life up there on the screen. Currently working in a temp job (where I am typing this review), "Clockwatchers" is terrifyingly familiar. It's not a hilarious comedy, although it is quite funny. Certain moments threaten to veer into David Lynch-style self-conscious surrealism, but the director reigns these moments in, in the nick of time.It's a film about small things happening in an enclosed space, and the friendships that grow between the most unlikely of people, due mostly to proximity. The mood of paranoia that emerges in the second half of the film is perfect - turning trivialities into monumental acts of anarchy and betrayal. The office becomes a sealed microcosm where the theft of a tiny plastic monkey becomes the end of the world.Not everyone is going to understand this film - it's not "Office Space", which is more accessibly 'wacky'. You're not going to chuck it on with your mates and have a good laugh. It's much more sombre and serious and ultimately quite sad. And it's made me quit my job (so perhaps I should have given it 10 stars, just for that).
Reviewed by moonspinner55 9 / 10

A masterpiece in a minor key

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 ****
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