7/10
boring and pointless
5 March 2005
When a movie is about a big corporation, it's genre is called comedy and it has Scarlett Johhanson in it, one would expect a funny, entertaining comedy with a touch of romance. Well, this movie is not funny AT ALL. You just can't help NOT laughing while watching it. It is not in any way entertaining either. Throughout the whole film we observe a 51 year old clerk trying to keep his job and to keep his daughter on the leash, while the latter is in some kind of relationship with a 20 something year old boss of her father. Many people get fired from the corporation main characters are occupied in, as the company slowly falls into bankruptcy. By the end of the movie we are being told how bad it is to fire employees for some corporate issues; that people are more important than how magazines are being sold. A very good and human point. Applauds to the director. It's OK that you will have to suffer for over one and a half hours, just to find out in the end how bad and unkind are those bosses who fire their employees. 1/10

Update: after re-warching the film upon several years I give it 7 out of 10.
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