Office Space (1999)

Office Space rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 304K votes

Rotten Tomatoes82%

Metacritic68%

TMDb7.373/10· 3K votes

With 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 68/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Office Space

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

Cast of Office Space

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  Ron Livingston

  as Peter Gibbons

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  Jennifer Aniston

  as Joanna

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  David Herman

  as Michael Bolton

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  Ajay Naidu

  as Samir Nagheenanajar

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  Diedrich Bader

  as Lawrence

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  Stephen Root

  as Milton Waddams

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  Gary Cole

  as Bill Lumbergh

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  Richard Riehle

  as Tom Smykowski

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  Ali Wentworth

  as Anne

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  Joe Bays

  as Dom Portwood

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  John C. McGinley

  as Bob Slydell

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  Paul Willson

  as Bob Porter

Office Space facts

Budget

$10M

Box office

$12.8M

Our take on Office Space

Mike Judge's 1999 comedy is a deadpan takedown of open-plan office life. A burnt-out white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy and slides into a blissful state of not caring, prompting him to ignore his soul-crushing employer, live by his own rules, and cook up a hapless plan to embezzle from the company. Judge builds the humor out of exactly the small indignities anyone with a cubicle job will recognize: broken printers, passive-aggressive memos, dreaded status meetings. Dry, quotable, and unhurried, it never chases big laughs, trusting recognition to do the work. It suits viewers who like understated satire over slapstick, and anyone who has ever fantasized about walking out of a job.