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- 1998
- PG-13
- Artistic License
- 1 h 36 m
- 1998
- PG-13
- Artistic License
- 1 h 36 m
Summary The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Directed By: Jill Sprecher
Written By: Karen Sprecher, Jill Sprecher
- 1998
- PG-13
- Artistic License
- 1 h 36 m
- 1998
- PG-13
- Artistic License
- 1 h 36 m
Clockwatchers
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Summary The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Directed By: Jill Sprecher
Written By: Karen Sprecher, Jill Sprecher
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
26% Mixed
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5 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
64
63% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
26% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Clockwatchers is a wicked, subversive comedy about the hell on earth occupied by temporary office workers.
The film isnt without bumps -- theres something rather gnomish and self-serving about its tolerance for grotesqueries and caricature -- but it presents us with a wholly rendered, largely credible world peppered with witty little moments and wryly chosen details. [19 Jun 1998, p.30]
Clockwatchers may not be perfect, but it's on to something. [22 May 1998, p.D5]
On the surface, it's a mystery in which someone is going around stealing personal items, and the women are suspected -- and suspect each other. In a larger sense it's about how corporate culture is not only antithetical to individuality and human kindness but also hostile toward these things.
The ensemble performances are perfectly meshed, and the Sprechers deserves special credit for bringing the desperate underside of Posey's brittle self-assurance to the surface.
Clockwatchers is an updated 9 to 5, and as such, replaces that movie's straightfoward story of liberation from male oppression with something more Generation X-ish - liberation from a kind of self-imposed malaise. [12 Jun 1998, p.F7]
There’s a wisp of a plot (who could the office klepto be?), but most of Clockwatchers is as empty of drive and imagination as its poor-little-victim heroines, who never seem more than sulky, overgrown high school girls.
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Awards
Torino International Festival of Young Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Arizona International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
