Clockwatchers . Nashville Scene . 11-30-98

Clockwatchers

DIRECTED BY: Jill Sprecher

REVIEWED: 11-30-98

Set in Anywhere, U.S.A., this keenly observed and darkly comic indie is named for a quartet of office temps who toil at Global Credit while receiving no credit of their own. Each of the four has her own ironic way of coping: Paula (Lisa Kudrow) believes she'll soon make it as an actress, but in the meantime she makes it with various junior-executive jerks; Jane (Alanna Ubach) is an obsessive-compulsive, counting the days until her wedding to a guy who's probably cheating on her; Margaret (Parker Posey) yearns for a permanent job while relishing every minor opportunity for sarcasm or insurrection; and Iris (Toni Collette) is a sensitive shoegazer who longs for conversation but rarely speaks, instead reserving her most intimate thoughts for the safe space of her diary. As director Jill Sprecher keeps her camera in the cubicled trenches, and as her sharp eye fixes on the most minute details in this company of men, Clockwatchers begins to notice that the master's tools might be used to tear down his office--or at least to pry open the door a little wider.

--Rob Nelson

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