In an ideal world, we’d all work at fulfilling jobs we love, surrounded by people we love and employed by bosses we love. In the real world, most of us work at menial jobs, with people we don’t like all that much and bosses we downright despise. This unfortunate truth has been lampooned by comic strips like “Dilbert” and countless office movies. The office motion picture is one that will endure in American culture because we all daydream about one day blowing our lids and deciding “we’re not going to take it,” as Twisted Sister would say.

Office Space is considered the king of office movies. This 1999 hit film satirizes life at a software company in the nineties. The story’s protagonist, Peter Gibbons, decides to stop going to work just as the company is downsizing, which makes him even more intriguing and desirable to his bosses. When his friends get fired, they decide to create a computer virus that will siphon off money into their bank accounts. Other characters include Milton — the quiet eccentric who is perpetually disgruntled and whose desk is always getting moved; Lumbergh — the ever-irritating boss whose expressions and mannerisms drive workers up the wall; and a string of characters who talk about having “a case of the Mondays” and lust after their coworkers. Despite its sluggish box office sales, Office Space went on to become one of the most-purchased movies online, with more than 2.6 million DVDs sold for home theater viewing.

Fight Club is another one of the best office movies. This 1999 movie is based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk and tells the story of a nameless narrator (played by Edward Norton) who works an unfulfilling job at Federated Motor Corporation in the Compliance and Liability Department. Basically it’s his job to do the math to see if a particular automobile’s safety hazard is “worth fixing.” He meets Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) who rebels against his status quo by adding some extra “spice” to the soup and picking fights with random strangers. Throw in Marla Singer, a girl who is addicted to finding wedding dresses at Good Will and attending survivor support groups, and a cast of disgruntled misfits who love mayhem — and you’ve got an off-beat, unpredictable thriller. Fight Club is another one of the top movies that failed to catch on at the Box Office (just over $37 million) but grossed $55 million in DVD sales.

Office movies often have epic moments of open defiance, which appeals to us most. It’s hard not to love when Lester Burnham (American Beauty) negotiates a severance package with his boss, saying, “Then I guess I’ll have to throw in a sexual harassment charge….” As Burnham says, “I’m just an ordinary guy who has nothing left to lose.” Audiences also love Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club when he decides he doesn’t care about his job anymore and goes to work faxing off personal memos for Project Mayhem. When his boss discovers these files, the narrator warns him, “Well, I gotta tell you: I’d be very, very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that… is dangerous. And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho might just snap, and then stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This might be someone you’ve known for years. Someone very, very close to you.” So this year when you’re looking to buy movies that center around office rebellion, consider these classics.

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