Clockwatchers 1997 123movies

Watch: Clockwatchers 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Iris can best be described as a wallflower. She begins her first day as a temp for the nondescript Global Credit Association by waiting in a chair for two hours. This sets the scene for her (mis)adventures with the other “corporate orphans”, Margaret, Paula and Jane. Led by Margaret, they find subtle ways to lessen the ennui of corporate oppression. The tension escalates when the new permanent hire, Cleo, enters the picture..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 5,717
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 46 Popularity: 4.289 | TMDB

Reviews:

The temps
Jill Sprecher, the enormous talent behind “Clockwatchers”, needs to be seen more often. We saw this witty comedy in its original debut and it was a pleasure to watch it again on IFC. Ms. Sprecher and her sister Karen wrote a delicious movie that is on the one level a satire about the way “temps” are used in an office, and it’s at the same time, a character study about these four souls at the center of the movie.

Each one of the young women in the film has a problem. They come together because they don’t have a life on their own. Iris, Margaret, Paula and Jane, form a bond because they find safety in numbers. Iris is a clever girl whose shyness doesn’t let her assert herself and is dragged along by the others that show stronger personalities. Margaret puts up a front, but deep down, she is just as vulnerable as the others. The most pathetic one is Paula, a woman who is pretending to be what she is not. Jane is waiting for the security of marriage to beat it out of being a temp.

When the sneaky Cleo is hired as a permanent employee, the problems in the office are magnified. As things begin disappearing from the office, all eyes point to the four temps. That is the beginning of the end of the clique, as they knew it. Iris is the one that stays the longer and she is the one that discovers the mystery of the missing things in the office, but alas, it’s too late, because at that time she leaves the temp job.

Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow and Alana Ubach, are perfect as the four temps. Toni Collette has a better role where to shine as most of the story is seen through her eyes. Parker Posey is delightful as the free spirited Margaret. Lisa Kudrow also makes a good contribution with her pathetic Paula. Helen Firzgerald, who only has a few lines, cast a giant shadow as the creepy new employee that wants to make friends with Iris, only to be ignored.

The Sprecher sisters created a film that feels real a situation one has seen is prevalent in the office setting.

Clockwatchers leaves it mark
I saw this on cable last night, just 2 days after seeing the Sprecher sisters’ latest film, 13 Conversations About One Thing – that was the reason I stayed up til 2:30 a.m. to watch it, in fact (please read my review of 13 Conversations, posted yesterday). This film is linear – one scene following the other chronologically – and therefore not as challenging to the viewer as 13 Conversations, but it does leave its mark (as one character in the movie has been told to do).

Writer/Director Jill Sprecher is extremely adept in nailing down specifics, and this gift for detail is in full evidence here. The film is about fear, lunch hours, pettiness, toilet paper, loneliness, rubber band balls, despair, paper clips, friendship, pencils, desperation, cocktail garnishes, anger – downright fury, actually – at being marginalized by the illusion of society – and much more. Toni Collette’s face is still in my memory – her terrified-to-do-or-say-the-wrong-thing rabbit eyes, her rapture at feeling connected to her 3 fellow temp workers (and specifically, seeing her nose crinkle the way it does when she smiles), the desolation of seeing their bond destroyed by wretched but inevitable bone-chilling office politics and fear.

It’s a small slice of life, Clockwatchers, but it’s an important slice, one that anyone who has ever interacted with anyone on a daily, money-driven basis can relate to. If you’ve ever held a job, I’m saying, you will see yourself mirrored in at least some of these meticulous details.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 537948
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Jill Sprecher
Writer Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher
Actors Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards 2 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio N/A
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Kodak)
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm