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Dir: Frank A Cappello.
Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H Macy
Description: Ignored by his boss and bullied by his co-workers, office dogs-body Bob Maconel retreats into spectacular fantasies of detonating a bomb under his workplace or gunning down the people in neighbouring cubicles. When a fellow employee loses the plot and starts shooting all and sundry, Bob becomes a reluctant hero, not least for pretty Vanessa, who is left paralyzed by one of the bullets. Friendship blossoms into something deeper and Bob wonders whether the massacre could have been the best thing that ever happened to him in Frank A. Cappello's dark comedy.
Country: US. 2006. 95mins
The quiet man in Frank Capello's defiantly serious comedy is Christian Slater's balding, bespectacled, mustachioed mouse of an office worker who not only contemplates shooting himself but thinks about taking some of the executive bullies along with him.
But before he can do this, another clerk goes on a killing spree in the office and, in defending himself, the mouse becomes an accidental hero. He even saves the life of the pretty girl (Elisha Cuthbert) who has never previously even looked at him.
Now paralysed, the girl, who has been having it off with the boss (William H Macy) becomes fond of him. He's the only one who cares for her. But being an admired hero is just as difficult for this terminally diffident man as being the office mouse; even the talking fish he regularly feeds can't help him.
This rather strange little film shows Slater to be an actor of some standing who is ready, willing and able to transcend his star image. Some people, Capello seems to say, just can't win, largely because they won't believe anyone can love or even admire them.
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