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		Clockwatchers delivers plenty of laughs around these and other corporate phenomena, but somewhere in the middle of the movie, its comic skin is peeled back and revealing a surprising, almost surreal core of unhappiness and mistrust among its central characters.
		Clockwatchers does not fully capitalize on all of the plotlines it begins to lay out for itself, but the intensity and compassion with with the Sprecher sisters examine their protagonists make Clockwatchers an intriguing and enjoyable hour and a half.
		Clockwatchers represents temporary work not as a morass in which talented individuals must briefly bide their time, but as a peculiar limbo-state of employment for oddball people who exist in their own limboes, neither adept nor incompetent, neither reliable nor deceptive, neither loyal nor self-serving.
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	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Review: Clockwatchers
		Iris begins to love her job until a rash of random items around the office begin to disappear and the temps are suspected as being culprits to these robberies.
		CLOCKWATCHERS may be easy to dismiss as a rough draft of a real movie, or merely to unsubstantial to truly entertain.
		CLOCKWATCHERS may only really be understood by people who have ever worked in an office, who will recognize how the most trivial of issues can blow out of proportion and how the most worthless of items can be seen as prized possessions.
	www.qwipster.net /clockwatchers.htm (307 words)

	Clockwatchers
		Sprecher and her sister Karen, who co-wrote the script, would probably say the movie's not about temping but about the characters, and that's precisely the problem, since the characters are mostly bores.
		It's too bad the satirical angle is abandoned so soon, since Clockwatchers stops far short of exhausting the possibilities, and never touches on the real insidiousness of temp work: the rapid growth of no-security, no-benefit jobs as a short-term fix for corporate greed.
		Posey brings her usual pathological sassiness to the party, and Kudrow, a tart and underrated comedian, is surprisingly moving as a woman who can't break the habit of dreaming even though she's already given up hope.
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	'Clockwatchers': Sedition and Subjugation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As it follows the lives of four office temps who work side by side in the sterile cubicles of a corporate colossus called Global Credit, the movie rubs your face in the petty humiliations endured by women at the low end of the company totem pole.
		"Clockwatchers" observes this world through the eyes of Iris (Toni Collette), a shy newcomer to Global Credit who, during her first day on the job, is befriended by the flouncing, rebellious Margaret (Parker Posey), a peripatetic temp who has thought up a hundred little ways to sabotage the companies she works for.
		The story of "Clockwatchers" revolves around an office witch hunt after some petty thievery in which suspicion falls on the four friends.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/051598clockwatchers-film-review.html (555 words)

	Amazon.com: Clockwatchers: Video: Jill Sprecher,Toni Collette,Parker Posey,Lisa Kudrow,Alanna Ubach,Helen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What's refreshing about Clockwatchers is the way it exposes the alienation of modern corporate life without resorting to the usual movie cliches.
		Clockwatchers, for all its interesting European styling, has pinned down two realities most realistically: life in a business office and what life is like when you are waiting for it to become something, anything.
		Clockwatchers is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life.
	www.amazon.com /Clockwatchers-Jill-Sprecher/dp/630567681X (2824 words)

	Clockwatchers Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		The strength of "Clockwatchers" lies in its examination and merciless derision of human behavior in the corporate setting.
		The office is a dehumanizing environment for all the employees, whether they are perms or temps, and they each create their own trivial fiefdoms and delusions of importance, not only as a means of exerting some sort of control over their lives, but also to hide their own inadequacies.
		As a film, "Clockwatchers" is brilliantly directed by Jill Sprecher, with every element contributing to the no-holds-barred skewering of office life-- especially the tacky retro-Seventies production design, and the innocuous muzac that always plays in the background.
	www.mediacircus.net /clockwatchers.html (892 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Clockwatchers
		WHAT AN appropriate title Clockwatchers is. Director Jill Sprecher and her sister, co-writer Karen Sprecher, have that usual problem of budding independent filmmakers: How do you stretch out to the necessary hour and a half running time with only one hour's worth of plot?
		While the Sprechers unleash Collette at the end of the film, most of Clockwatchers has her shuffling through the picture with her hair in her eyes.
		It's a credit to the Sprechers that they don't bring the film to a strong point--the characters drift apart instead of being driven apart, and the film comes to a delicate finish.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.03.98/clockwatchers-9835.html (770 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Clockwatchers (1997)
		It is a film that effortlessly observes characters and situations in an everyday setting, and feels as if you could be watching a documentary because it is so real.
		"Clockwatchers" is a jewel of a film, and it was so refreshing to watch the characters and their various interactions with each other that I totally got caught up in it.
		Thanks to the smart, perceptive screenplay, also written by Sprecher, and the performances by all four leads, the characters easily were able to come alive.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/c/97_clockwatchers.htm (346 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Clockwatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Like nomads of the corporate terrain, the young temp workers in Jill Sprecher's "Clockwatchers" hold an uncertain yet hopeful vision of what lays ahead in their future.
		Both Jill and her sister, Karen, have crafted a genuinely witty yet sensitive screenplay surrounding the insecurities and dreams of four young women who grin and bear their fleeting 9-5 livelihood.
		This lack of animated buffoonery makes "Clockwatchers" appealing mostly to audience members who recognize the struggles and triumphs of the odd-man or odd-woman-out in the world of corporate cronies.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/clockwatchers.html (298 words)

	CLOCKWATCHERS - **** (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is a film which would take one look at that phrase and let out a snort of derision, followed by a witheringly sarcastic comment or two, if it felt it was worth the effort.
		Clockwatchers is not exactly a comedy and not exactly a drama, though it scores points as both.
		The structure is strange, the tone indefinable, and the characters unlike most I've seen in recent memory.
	www.geocities.com /krylonman/film_reviews/clockwatchers.html (907 words)

	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Clockwatchers"
		Clockwatchers is an immortal classic about a foursome of ghost temps who find themselves in the shadowy realm between corporate reality and basic insanity.
		Without any clear purpose, boss, or reason to be there, the temps find themselves challenged to stave off boredom any way possible.
		Much like Office Space, Clockwatchers mocks the dumb structure of corporate life, from the organized chaos to the petty jealousness of the people within.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /rclockwatchers.html (821 words)

	Clockwatchers - Movie Review
		It really, unless you happen to be a curious person or a psychoanalyst, doesn't concern you why a writer wants to write, a painter wants to paint, etc. However, even the writers and painters often do not have much of a clue where their ideas come from.
		The success of Clockwatchers in having a vignette-esque nature and being about nothing more than stealing office supplies leads me to believe that we may see a whole new slew of art-house films about the office space.
		The problem inherent in the title Clockwatchers is that it leaves itself open for the attack that I will now make.
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	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: Clockwatchers, directed by Jill Sprecher
		Don’t be afraid to make your mark." The magical moments which lead to Iris's personal transformation are subtle and sneaky.
		Clockwatchers speaks to many issues that we all face on the job and in our work-a-day worlds.
		A discussion guide by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat is available for this movie.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=1293 (563 words)

	Office Temps With Attitude / `Clockwatchers' satirizes insidious corporate culture
		A perfect moment that illustrates the distinct mood of ``Clockwatchers'' comes early in the picture, when the workers are shown staring at the clock for the last two minutes of the day.
		Then the plot is set in motion, and we get to see how the office culture contrives to break down their vitality and compromise their friendships.
		That's the beauty of ``Clockwatchers.'' On the surface, it's a mystery in which someone is going around stealing personal items, and the women are suspected -- and suspect each other.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/08/14/DD47572.DTL (570 words)

	ONE CONVERSATION WITH JILL SPRECHER: Film Freak Central Interviews Jill Sprecher, Director of 13 Conversations About ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		You know, when we were writing 13 Conversations we thought we were writing a totally different movie than Clockwatchers and it's only after that we realized that a lot of the same concerns were coming through.
		With Clockwatchers I thought, "Hey, this'll be great, I'll have this big anonymous office like in that Jack Lemmon film, The Apartment--just rows on rows of desks." But you're hit by reality that on your budget you can afford like six desks.
		We had thirty days on both films--we'd scheduled thirty-five for 13 Days, mainly because nothing was shot on a stage and we had close to fifty locations, but had to cut a week off the shooting because of financial reasons.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/jsprecherinterview.htm (1243 words)

	Clockwatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One step beyond the world of Slackers is that of Jill Sprecher's brisk, witty, shrewdly observed Clockwatchers, where the characters indeed have to punch a time clock.
		Four women labor as temps in a soulless rat maze of an office where the abuse isn't so much sexual as existential.
		And tragic, as this quartet of underachievers watch their desperate attempt at identity, purpose, and loyalty succumb to the enforced ephemerality of the work place.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/05/21/CLOCKWATCHERS.html (218 words)

	Vault 1 - Review: Clockwatchers
		Boasting a cast of indie queens and television personalities, "Clockwatchers" is an appealing comedy about four temp workers in an organization, waiting out their time as they try to become somebody in what they consider their post-office hours, "real" lives.
		The script sometimes over-reaches itself, trying to metaphorically examine ponderous life issues such as "the transience of friendships" and "the constant race of life" - these moments, mostly done via voice-over narration, seem jarring and out of place.
		The best things on offer in "Clockwatchers" are the spot-on observations of the lives of those at the lower end of the corporate ladder, and some good performances.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/4824/clock.html (940 words)

	Clockwatchers (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Clockwatchers (1997)
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	ClockWatchers - Synopsis - Moviefone
		When office supplies and various personal items start to disappear, all signs point to one of the temp workers (most likely Margaret), though none will own up to any wrongdoing.
		Clockwatchers was the directorial debut for filmmaker Jill Sprecher, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Karen Sprecher.
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	ClockWatchers - Movie Info - Moviefone
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	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Clockwatchers (1997)
		Clockwatchers is an offbeat independent film that peeks into the segregation of temps and full timers at an office.
		The temps hang together; the story is of their oppression.
		Back to the Film Reviews for the 1990s.
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	Movie Review - Clockwatchers - eFilmCritic
		And propinquity only lasts as long as the temporary assignment which created that closeness in time and space.
		If you like quiet independent films, you will enjoy strolling through Clockwatchers with her.
		Clockwatchers was a slice of heaven for anyone tired of female exploitation and cleavage.
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	Clockwatchers - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		Clockwatchers - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		Scott Ventura >> Movie Commentary >> December 1998 >> Clockwatchers
		Temporary work can be bad for the soul.
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	Clockwatchers
		Like the unrelenting Musack that fills the heroines's offices, Clockwatchers is a bit too sedate.
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	Amazon.com: Clockwatchers: DVD: Jill Sprecher,Toni Collette,Parker Posey,Lisa Kudrow,Alanna Ubach,Helen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amazon.com: Clockwatchers: DVD: Jill Sprecher,Toni Collette,Parker Posey,Lisa Kudrow,Alanna Ubach,Helen FitzGerald,Stanley DeSantis,Jamie Kennedy,David James Elliott,Debra Jo Rupp,Kevin Cooney,Bob Balaban,Paul Dooley,Scott Mosenson,Irene Olga López,Joshua Malina,O-Lan Jones,Joe Chrest,Patrice Pitman Quinn,Michelle Arthur,Athena Ubach
		Strong performances from both Parker Posey and Lisa Kudrow (who since Friends and the witty Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion seems to be suffering increasingly from stereotyping) give Collette a solid surface off of which she bounces her quiet, psychological role to great satisfaction.
		The four young women-shy Iris (Toni Collette), brash Margaret (Parker Posey), wannabe starlet Paula (Lisa Kudrow) and pampered Jane (Alanna Ubach)-become fast friends while temping at a big company where looking busy is a full time occupation.
	www.amazon.com /Clockwatchers-Jill-Sprecher/dp/B000B5XP4C (2702 words)

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	Clockwatchers . Nashville Scene . 11-30-98
		Set in Anywhere, U.S.A., this keenly observed and darkly comic indie is named for a quartet of office temps who toil at Global Credit while receiving no credit of their own.
		As director Jill Sprecher keeps her camera in the cubicled trenches, and as her sharp eye fixes on the most minute details in this company of men, Clockwatchers begins to notice that the master's tools might be used to tear down his office--or at least to pry open the door a little wider.
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