Archive for September 1st, 2009

Extract

Director: Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy)

Screenwriter: Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy)

Cast: Jason Bateman (Juno, Arrested Development), Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), J. K. Simmons (Juno, Spider-Man trilogy), Kristen Wiig (Adventureland), Ben Affleck

Length: 1h 31m

Synopsis: Joel (Bateman) owns a factory that manufactures cooking extracts, and reluctantly manages the workers of that factory with loyalty and patience despite their continual incompetence and insolence. One day an accident occurs which leaves one worker permanently scarred. Being a loyal worker he at first only accepts a large insurance payment from the factory, but after crossing paths with a seductive and opportunistic young thief named Cindy (Kunis) who decides he’s her next mark, he threatens to sue the factory into bankruptcy.

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