Clockwatchers

captures a super specific mundanity and gnawing daily despair that i can’t say i’ve seen portrayed like this in film before while also easily managing to be sharp as hell… life really is like that (working, and female friendships. ouch ouch ouch)

Lucy

thirst-watching Parker Posey’s varied filmography occasionally unearths some hidden gems!! Clockwatchers captures how frustratingly soul-sucking menial office work is, specifically through the lens of women temps. i work at a bookstore for minimum wage and sometimes i feel…

mia lee vicino

parker posey could do the communist manifesto but karl marx couldn't do clockwatchers

michael

Dissatisfaction captured in cold, fluorescent lighting, cubicle framing, empty hallways, and dead machinery; drudgery defeated (delayed) by camaraderie, reignited by betrayal. This is what Office Space should have been: empathetic, intelligent, discomfiting to look at. The…

Sally Jane Black

she didn't steal the monkey :,)

kyle

this has sent me into an existential spiral!!! all I know is I want all of parker posey’s outfits (as usual) and lisa kudrow is a severely undervalued actress

eely

The Avengers want what this cast has

Kenny

“you can’t fire me, you don’t even know my name.” precisely pinpoints the confining nature of post-grad “professionalism” and the struggles of finding your purpose doing work that doesn’t matter. clockwatchers is an underrated 90s classic through-and-through and i wish it…

nick

There's something REALLY sad at the center of this dramedy about what the modern workplace steals from you. The type of film that perfectly captures the way that modern work pressures you to abandon the only thing that makes life worth living: friends and community. Those…

Shreyansh