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GenreComedy
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 29 mins
ReleasedFebruary 19, 1999
StreamingRent or buy on digital; subscription home rotates
DirectorMike Judge
StarringRon Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole
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Office Space (1999)
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| Office Space's Details | |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Rated | R (language and brief sexuality) |
| Released | 02/19/1999 |
| Streaming | VHS and DVD from August 1999. Became a cult hit on home video and cable. Subscription home rotates. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 29 mins |
| Budget | $10 million (reported) |
| Box Office | $12.2 million worldwide |
| Based On | Mike Judge's Milton animated shorts (1991 to 1993) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Office Space's Interests | |
| General | TPS reports, cover sheets, flair, fixing the glitch. |
| Music | Geto Boys, Scarface. Gangsta rap over a printer beatdown. |
| Movies | Idiocracy (2006). Same dad, darker forecast. |
| Television | King of the Hill, Silicon Valley. Mike Judge never left the office. |
| Heroes | Milton. He was promised cake. |
| Office Space's Crew | |
| Director | Mike Judge |
| Writer | Mike Judge |
| Producers | Michael Rotenberg, Daniel Rappaport |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Music | John Frizzell |
| Edited By | David Rennie |
| Production | Judgemental Films, 3 Arts Entertainment |
| Distributed By | 20th Century Fox |
Mike Judge made a movie about office drones that predicted every job you’ve ever hated. Budget so low the set was basically a real office. Ron Livingston’s Peter looks dead inside from minute one and I felt that in my soul. Bill Lumbergh is the greatest villain in cinema history and he never even raises his voice, ‘mmmkay’ carries more menace than any supervillain monologue. Milton’s red stapler is a warning to management everywhere. The printer scene is the most cathartic act of violence ever put on film. First watch: hilarious because you dream of operating with zero cares at work. Tenth watch: hilarious because you’re still there, and that face is yours. It flopped in theaters, then became a cult classic on cable, the most Office Space ending of all time. 8.5 because it hits harder every year you work for a living. I still hear that cursed printer. $25 says you catch yourself saying ‘yeahhh, I’m gonna need you to’ at work this week. Mmmkay?
What works: Lumbergh, Milton and a cast that nails the slow death of cubicle life without anyone ever raising their voice.
What doesn’t: The penny-shaving scheme is the weakest part of the plot, and the romance with Joanna barely gets a pulse.
Who it’s for: Anyone who has ever had a case of the Mondays, a TPS report or a printer that hates them.
Spoilers
The scheme goes sideways, Milton finally gets his revenge on Initech, and Peter ends up happily working construction.
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) writes software updates at Initech and hates every second of it, mostly because of his boss Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). A hypnotherapy session goes wrong and leaves him permanently relaxed, right as two consultants show up to decide who gets laid off. Peter stops caring, gets promoted, and talks his coworkers Michael (David Herman) and Samir (Ajay Naidu) into a penny-shaving scheme that works way too well. Meanwhile Milton (Stephen Root) just wants his stapler back. Eighty-nine minutes, one fax machine with a death wish.
Anyone with a case of the Mondays. Bring a cover sheet.
| Ron Livingston | Peter Gibbons |
| Jennifer Aniston | Joanna |
| David Herman | Michael Bolton |
| Ajay Naidu | Samir Nagheenanajar |
| Diedrich Bader | Lawrence |
| Stephen Root | Milton Waddams |
| Gary Cole | Bill Lumbergh |
| Richard Riehle | Tom Smykowski |
| Alexandra Wentworth | Anne |
| Joe Bays | Dom Portwood |
| John C. McGinley | Bob Slydell |
| Paul Willson | Bob Porter |
| Kinna McInroe | Nina |
| Todd Duffey | Brian |
| Greg Pitts | Drew |
| Orlando Jones | Steve |
| Mike Judge | Stan (as William King) |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.6 / 10 (312,502 votes) → 7.6 / 10 (312,524 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +80 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.6 / 10 (312,481 votes) → 7.6 / 10 (312,502 votes); movie.guru score 6.8.
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 16 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: score credits updated.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 16 October 2026 movie guru -0.7 Rescored 9.2 to 8.5, Great. I still hear that cursed printer. Just a little quieter now.
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 15 October 2026 DataBot +200 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $12.2M → $10.8M; Profit / loss (est.) -$8.9M → -$9.6M; Rotten Tomatoes 80% → 82%; box office chart updated; RT 80% (90+ reviews) → 82% (103 reviews).
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 8 October 2026 movie guru +1.1 Rescored 8.1 to 9.2, Elite. It hits harder every year you work for a living. Rewatch number eleven settled it.
- (cur | prev) 10:20, 4 October 2026 DataBot +2,012 Cast and crew in credits order added from IMDb. Details, interests, crew and performance charts filled in. Scores: RT critics 80%, RT audience 93%, IMDb 7.6.
- (cur | prev) 10:05, 4 October 2026 movie guru +1,233 Page created. TLDR posted. movie guru score 8.1, Great. Still hears that cursed printer.