Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

jlarkin5 This movie allows you to look in on the challenges and small triumphs of four female office temps as they struggle to just get through the day. Yes, that doesn't sound very titillating BUT IT IS! I promise.Strong performances from the entire cast but Toni Collette and Parker Posey really shine.The strength of the film is how it somehow reveals the corporate world for what it is: completely de-humanizing. There are great scenes of comic satire and poignant moments anyone who has been on the lower rung of the business hierarchy will be able to recognize.Forget "Office Space" "Clockwatchers" is the definitive office world flick.

102AFalcon CLOCKWATCHERS is a rare breed of film: it works as a comedy for a while, and then transitions into serious, basic drama without breaking a sweat. That's not easy to do at all.The saddest story in this movie is...actually, there are several stories that are pretty damn depressing (in a good way, not in a causing viewers to need a lot of alcohol to get over seeing them). The relationship between the four temps never seemed like the Ya-Ya Sisterhood or anything like that, but it was still a shock to see how rapidly things deteriorated between them. And the brilliance of the kaleidoscope-like script by the Sprecher sisters is evident in how the responsibility for the loss of friendships changes with different viewings. Is it the fault of Margaret, who is too smart to play dumb but might be much more happy if she could learn to try? Of Iris, who at a crucial moment makes a judgment about Margaret, and then doesn't correct it? Or Paula, who is the first person to turn on Margaret and only seems interested in her own life? Or Jane, who is a shell of a person? Maybe it's Cleo the full-time worker, or Barbara the officer Rule Bitch, or---the situation that the company puts them all in, hoping to assign blame, not unlike what I was considering.I related more strongly to this movie having been an office temp worker than I suspect I would have if I'd never taken on such work. The company I worked at was actually a great place, and my boss was a terrific guy who knew mine (and everyone else's) names. Yet the work was mostly repetitive typing and filing, there were times when I simply had nothing to do and ended up scrambling to fill the time, and the thought of doing a job like that for longer than the period I did it (eight weeks) would have been like a prison sentence embedded in free society. I decided to leave because I needed to find a full-time job, and was lucky to do so about a month after my last temp day. CLOCKWATCHERS gets the tone of temp life down pitch-perfectly; no matter how good being a temp can be, it's a lower caste in the office system, period.And the last few scenes, where Iris pulls off a downright brilliant plan to help her friend at last, is a perfect capper here. 9/10.

hayleeM01 Many of you have posted comments on "Clockwatchers" as a portrayal of "Office Life"... Not true!! It is a movie based on each of the 4 main characters personal "Identity Struggle" and nothing more than that. Watch it again and "Forget" that they are in an "Office" setting, focus on the personalities you see in each of the 4 main characters. I'll give you a hint, Lisa Kudrow's character has Bulimia Nervosa.Guess who has OCD?"Never ignore the Obvious and Never over-look the Obscure"A great Movie! 10 "stars"

vchimpanzee Iris is a temp at a company called Global Credit. She makes several friends who are also temps, but she is never really accepted by other employees. The company is not pleasant to work for--the bosses are not shown being really mean, but they just don't truly appreciate their employees. The temps are bored, and most people at the company tend to do as little as they can get away with. Though I have to admit, there doesn't seem to be enough work for the number of people in that office. A couple of examples of the company's attitude--after some thefts, new rules are made and security measures such as cameras are added, and the bosses are always suspicious. Then there is the music--Muzak, elevator music, dentist's office--whatever you want to call it. I'm one of the few people who actually likes that music, and it made the movie worth seeing for me, though the music could have been used more in some scenes where it wouldn't fit, just for irony. Parkey Posey was great as usual. Margaret was charming and almost perky but also cynical and prone to cheating and stealing whenever she felt she could get away with it. She wanted a better career but was having a hard time moving forward. I enjoyed some, but not all, of the scenes with her character. Lisa Kudrow was perky, beautiful and slightly ditzy as an aspiring actress. I assume Toni Collette did a good job as Iris. I just didn't care much for her character, who wanted more out of life just like her co-workers and occasionally narrated. Her father wanted her to work at his company, International Foods, but she didn't seem motivated to do that for some reason.This seemed to be a pretty good movie. There was some comedy, even if the movie tended to be depressing. Something about it suggested an art film that might appeal to, say, Woody Allen fans. It just wasn't really my kind of movie.