Get a Job

Name: Get a Job
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 25, 2016
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 31

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CBS Films | Release Date: March 25, 2016 | R

Summary: Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will (Miles Teller) and Jillian (Anna Kendrick) who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

Director: Dylan Kidd

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 83 min

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Richard Roeper

Mar 24, 2016

Indeed Get a Job is an uneven, strange little movie with a hit-and-miss screenplay, some distractingly weird camera angles and a few subplots that never should have seen the light of day (or the dark of theater), but it also has an infectious charm, some genuinely funny set pieces and winning performances throughout. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Mar 22, 2016

With a cast this talented...Get A Job is never painful to endure, but neither does it ever rise above lazy mediocrity. Read full review

Soren Andersen

Mar 24, 2016

In the matter of searching for work in a difficult economy, Get a Job traffics in fairy tales that come complete with happily-ever-after endings. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 29, 2016

Get A Job is such a baffling endeavor the callow movie could conceivably come with its own milk carton campaign asking: “Where is Dylan Kidd and what have you done with him?” Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

Mar 30, 2016

A brutally cynical, largely unfunny film fueled by muddled social commentary. Read full review

Jon Frosch

Mar 22, 2016

From the very first scene, the rhythm is off, the staging and editing graceless, and the dialogue (the screenplay is by Kyle Pennekamp and Scott Turpel) alternates between trying too hard and not hard enough. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Mar 24, 2016

Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller’s downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from Get a Job, whose scattershot direction is credited to Dylan Kidd (“Roger Dodger”). Read full review

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geo333

Mar 26, 2016

With a good mixture of real world problems and comedy Get A Job is a solid good movie. In other words Get A Job did it's job which is entertain the viewers for the length of the film,

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tropicAces

Dec 16, 2018

Boring and aimless, and is not even a little surprising that this was shot in 2012 and didn’t see the light of day until 2016. Wastes *so* many likeable cast members...

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LeZee

Jul 4, 2016

Get a job, get along in a job, drugs, video game addiction, young generation.

This film delayed its release for a couple of years due to the distribution issues. That's not it, the film is no good, the writing was terrible, but a bunch of good actors in it. It is about the recent collegeGet a job, get along in a job, drugs, video game addiction, young generation.

This film delayed its release for a couple of years due to the distribution issues. That's not it, the film is no good, the writing was terrible, but a bunch of good actors in it. It is about the recent college graduates who struggles to get a job, even if they do, finds hard to fit in. A very good theme, but they failed to draw a decent storyline for it. I think they knew the film won't get a good response, so they used 'distribution issue' card to hold it back, but now it's out and the result was as expected.

It should have been called a drama than the comedy, because right now it lacks from those two categories. It digs on the topics like workplace bullying, harassment, as well as the youngsters' addiction to drugs and video games. In one of the scenes it emotionally appeals when the father tries to pay the bill in a restaurant. They had the right content, but lost in the translation to the screen. There's no proper flow in the story, they had tried too much, at a time it all remained very plain.

This is the second film to release in this year for Anna Kendrick and both of them did no good for her, especially this film fell short from a long distance. Same goes for Miles Teller and Bryan Cranston. I hope they all forget it and come strong in their next projects. A few people might like it, but not me. I like quality contents where this film is not one. Thankfully it was short, but only thing is it was not sweet.

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EpicLadySponge

Jul 1, 2016

If I ever had someone tell me "Get a Job" and show me the movie named the same thing, I'd be like, "No, you go get a job. A REAL ONE! RIGHT NOW!" It's so undeniable to even share this to your children and your children's children.

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SolInvicta

Apr 1, 2016

Let me start by saying that everything in Get a Job is atrocious except one thing: the acting. If these stars weren't attached to the movie nobody would bat an eye at this thing. It's so awful. I audibly "ugh"-ed when it finished. The message this movie tries to convey is that it's hard toLet me start by saying that everything in Get a Job is atrocious except one thing: the acting. If these stars weren't attached to the movie nobody would bat an eye at this thing. It's so awful. I audibly "ugh"-ed when it finished. The message this movie tries to convey is that it's hard to find a job, so you have to stop smoking pot and be determined and never give up and do whatever it takes to get a job. Or don't get a job and be an entrepreneur. The movie throws that one in at the end. A stupid message in the first place because, hey, not everyone has the same circumstances. This type of movie can only resonate with a niche crowd, but worse than that the writing is just dreadful. Cringe-City is what this movie should've been called. I felt bad for Miles Teller having to deliver these cliché lines like, "Never stop believing." Sorry Get a Job but I learned that lesson from Journey a long time ago. Bryan Cranston and Alison Brie try to have fun in their roles, and they really brighten up the mood, but it isn't nearly enough. Anna Kendrick is forced into this shell of a character who gets fired and can't get back on her feet so she succumbs to the evils of weed and laziness. When Anna Kendrick can't be adorable for every second she's on screen, then you know you have a problem.

The problem is literally everything else. The writing, the directing, the editing, the f*cking music, it all SUCKS. It's painful. It's one of those movies where you know if the actors weren't already attached to the project, it would've never been made. But the money was there so they hired great actors and they forgot about the rest of the crew so they got people on the street to do direct and their pet cat to write and who needs an editor anyway? The cat can do it! It's like an amateur film at points. I'll be honest, I chuckled a couple of times. And by a couple of times I mean it. I chuckled twice. Maybe smiled a few more times, but for a majority of Get a Job I was either cringing or frustrated at the fact that it was even greenlit and released. This movie... just...

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InglouriousAndy

May 18, 2016

ugh. bad, awful, unfocused, unfunny, gross, juvenile, immature, lame, overlong, bloated, stupid, terrible, insulting, badly acted, poorly written, laughably directed garbage.

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Benkoko11

Feb 23, 2017

Give a monkey Miles Teller, Brian Cranston, and a budget of $10 million and you'll get better results. Get a Job is a full-fledged embarrassment to all involved.

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