A hilarious 1 & 1/2 hr of comedy satiring the typical worklife of a software firm during the 90s. Written & directed by Mike Judge, the story involves a group of employees, Peter Gibbons, Michael Bolton, Samir Nagheenanajar and Tom Smykowski being constantly bullied by their boss Bill Lumbergh at Initech.
Peter is bored with his job at Initech and his boss Bill Lumbergh. Additionally he feels cheated by his girlfriend Anne and tries to cope up with his rough & tough, pervert but cool neighbour Lawrence from whom he can't keep a secret due to the partitioning wall which doesn't provide acoustical shielding. He finds a charming individual in Joanna, the waitress at Chotchkie's, a snacks lounge beside Initech's main building.
Michael Bolton is an expert programmer but has the coincidence of his name matching with a famous singer whom he personally hates.
Samir is also another programmer who is irritated whenever anybody pronounces his name badly, which is often the case.
These three a friends and also shares the same loathing to a xerox-cum-printer that always goes wrong in the middle of a process prompting messages that are Hebrew to them.
Tom Smykowski is a worthless employee who always fears that he might be fired anytime though his fear are never justified.
Added to this is Milton Waddams, who though had long been axed from the firm, but some glitch at the system continues delivering his monthly paycheck. This person mumbles a lot and threatens to set fire to the building regularly under his breath.
After the introductory phase, the main story starts with Peter being taken to an occupational hypnotherapist for Peter's mental troubles. This therapist hypnotizes Peter and before he could bring him to the state of complete relaxation he falls victim to a heart attack and dies immediately leaving Peter in a half hypnotized state. Ironically, this helps Peter who retains his job while his two friends, Peter & Samir gets fired during a downsizing of the farm.
Tom also manages to escape the axe due to an accident that helps him to seize some settlements from Initech.
But the situation infuriates Peter, Michael & Samir and they plans to plant a virus in the Initech mainframe that will accumulate the fraction of pennies during a transaction and direct them to another account so that these gathers a lot of money over time.
The plan succeeds but to their horror they find that in a few days the account accumulates a sum of over $300,000. Michael understands that he had misplaced a decimal point and now they can do nothing.
To save his friends, Peter writes a confession letter and leaves the document with unsigned Traveller's cheques (that they had converted the money in) in Bill's office. But fortune intervenes as an angry Milton gets hold of the cheques and actually sets fire to the office building on the same day.
Peter thus being saved, shifts to construction work with Lawrence, which he likes better, Peter & Samir finds a job at Initrode, a rival complany and Milton enjoys an expensive holiday at the French beaches.
The whole movie is hilarous, the most notable part being where the three friends vents their fury on the xerox-cum-printer with a baseball bat. As to the acting though the bulk is done by Ron Livingstone (Peter) but the others including Jennifer Aniston (Joanna), Ajay Naidu (Samir), David Herman (Michael), Diedrich Bader (Lawrence), Stephen Root (Milton) and Richard Riehl (Tom) also had given a nice performance, forgot to mention about the short role played by Mike Judge as the owner of Chotchkie's!
Peter is bored with his job at Initech and his boss Bill Lumbergh. Additionally he feels cheated by his girlfriend Anne and tries to cope up with his rough & tough, pervert but cool neighbour Lawrence from whom he can't keep a secret due to the partitioning wall which doesn't provide acoustical shielding. He finds a charming individual in Joanna, the waitress at Chotchkie's, a snacks lounge beside Initech's main building.
Michael Bolton is an expert programmer but has the coincidence of his name matching with a famous singer whom he personally hates.
Samir is also another programmer who is irritated whenever anybody pronounces his name badly, which is often the case.
These three a friends and also shares the same loathing to a xerox-cum-printer that always goes wrong in the middle of a process prompting messages that are Hebrew to them.
Tom Smykowski is a worthless employee who always fears that he might be fired anytime though his fear are never justified.
Added to this is Milton Waddams, who though had long been axed from the firm, but some glitch at the system continues delivering his monthly paycheck. This person mumbles a lot and threatens to set fire to the building regularly under his breath.
After the introductory phase, the main story starts with Peter being taken to an occupational hypnotherapist for Peter's mental troubles. This therapist hypnotizes Peter and before he could bring him to the state of complete relaxation he falls victim to a heart attack and dies immediately leaving Peter in a half hypnotized state. Ironically, this helps Peter who retains his job while his two friends, Peter & Samir gets fired during a downsizing of the farm.
Tom also manages to escape the axe due to an accident that helps him to seize some settlements from Initech.
But the situation infuriates Peter, Michael & Samir and they plans to plant a virus in the Initech mainframe that will accumulate the fraction of pennies during a transaction and direct them to another account so that these gathers a lot of money over time.
The plan succeeds but to their horror they find that in a few days the account accumulates a sum of over $300,000. Michael understands that he had misplaced a decimal point and now they can do nothing.
To save his friends, Peter writes a confession letter and leaves the document with unsigned Traveller's cheques (that they had converted the money in) in Bill's office. But fortune intervenes as an angry Milton gets hold of the cheques and actually sets fire to the office building on the same day.
Peter thus being saved, shifts to construction work with Lawrence, which he likes better, Peter & Samir finds a job at Initrode, a rival complany and Milton enjoys an expensive holiday at the French beaches.
The whole movie is hilarous, the most notable part being where the three friends vents their fury on the xerox-cum-printer with a baseball bat. As to the acting though the bulk is done by Ron Livingstone (Peter) but the others including Jennifer Aniston (Joanna), Ajay Naidu (Samir), David Herman (Michael), Diedrich Bader (Lawrence), Stephen Root (Milton) and Richard Riehl (Tom) also had given a nice performance, forgot to mention about the short role played by Mike Judge as the owner of Chotchkie's!
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