Clockwatchers . Tucson Weekly . 06-29-98

Clockwatchers

DIRECTED BY: Jill Sprecher

REVIEWED: 06-29-98

Finally, a movie that takes on the most pathetic area of corporate America: the world of temporary workers. Stuffed into cubicles, monitored by cameras, denied benefits or living wages, and treated with such disregard that few bother to remember their names, the temps in Clockwatchers try to use friendship to fight against their nowhere existence. Will office pettiness get the best of them? The answers are simultaneously hilarious and depressing, buffered by the kind of details that only someone who has endured the mind-numbing banality of temp work could know. Kudos to the writing-directing team of Karen and Jill Sprecher, sisters who in their first outing have out-classed 99-percent of other filmmakers by focusing on an unaddressed yet wholly relevant social subject. Well-realized performances by Toni Collette, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach, and especially Parker Posey keep the film a constant treat. Definitely one of the best movies of the year.

--Woodruff

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