The only thing that I can think when reading the negative comments left for this movie is that the people who wrote them have *clearly* never temped. As someone who spent four years of his life wasting away in other people's cubicles, I can tell you with complete authority that this movie gets every mind-numbing, insulting, and degrading aspect of the experience dead on. I suppose you should be thankful if you can't relate to what's going on in this film because it probably means you've never had to tip-toe into some middle manager's office on a Friday afternoon to get a signature on your time card.As for those who think "Clockwatchers" is "dull" or "boring," it's called subtly. Look into it.

Many of you have posted comments on "Clockwatchers" as a portrayal of "Office Life"... Not true!! It is a movie based on each of the 4 main characters personal "Identity Struggle" and nothing more than that. Watch it again and "Forget" that they are in an "Office" setting, focus on the personalities you see in each of the 4 main characters. I'll give you a hint, Lisa Kudrow's character has Bulimia Nervosa.Guess who has OCD?"Never ignore the Obvious and Never over-look the Obscure"A great Movie! 10 "stars"

Iris is a temp at a company called Global Credit. She makes several friends who are also temps, but she is never really accepted by other employees. The company is not pleasant to work for--the bosses are not shown being really mean, but they just don't truly appreciate their employees. The temps are bored, and most people at the company tend to do as little as they can get away with. Though I have to admit, there doesn't seem to be enough work for the number of people in that office. A couple of examples of the company's attitude--after some thefts, new rules are made and security measures such as cameras are added, and the bosses are always suspicious. Then there is the music--Muzak, elevator music, dentist's office--whatever you want to call it. I'm one of the few people who actually likes that music, and it made the movie worth seeing for me, though the music could have been used more in some scenes where it wouldn't fit, just for irony. Parkey Posey was great as usual. Margaret was charming and almost perky but also cynical and prone to cheating and stealing whenever she felt she could get away with it. She wanted a better career but was having a hard time moving forward. I enjoyed some, but not all, of the scenes with her character. Lisa Kudrow was perky, beautiful and slightly ditzy as an aspiring actress. I assume Toni Collette did a good job as Iris. I just didn't care much for her character, who wanted more out of life just like her co-workers and occasionally narrated. Her father wanted her to work at his company, International Foods, but she didn't seem motivated to do that for some reason.This seemed to be a pretty good movie. There was some comedy, even if the movie tended to be depressing. Something about it suggested an art film that might appeal to, say, Woody Allen fans. It just wasn't really my kind of movie.

I recently saw this movie by accident, on TV. At the beginning I found it very boring, you know, it really portrays what happens in an office; but somehow I started to find it interesting, I don't know, maybe it was the director's intention to make us feel bored and desperate, so that the little moments in the story could catch our attention, I don't know. Well, I have to say that Lisa Kudrow is great, she is really funny, even in this film. Parker Posey is OK and Toni Collette has always something to offer in any movie she appears. I started skeptical but finally, I really liked it.