서류뭉치, 끊이지 않는 상사 잔소리, 목을 조이는 넥타이. 반복된 업무와 스트레스에로 지친 주인공, 피터 깁슨(Peter Gibbons: 론 리빙스톤 분)은 견디다 못해 최면 요법 치료를 받으러 간다. 그런데 이게 웬 날벼락, 최면치료 중 치료사가 갑자기 심장마비로 죽고, 피터는 최면이 풀리지 않은 상태로 남게 된다. 문제는 그 다음부터. 최면 요법으로 스트레스가 풀린 피터는 복장자유에다 지각은 물론이고, 근무시간에 전자오락만 하는 등 백수처럼 일은 안하고 빈둥거리며 지낸다. 또한 남는 시간은 식당에서 알게 된 매력적인 웨이트리스(Joanna: 제니퍼 애니스톤 분)와 사귀면서 시간을 보내고, 평소부터 감정이 좋지 않았던 부사장에게 대드는 등 사무실의 안하무인격으로 건달처럼 행동한다. 그런데 솔직하며 직설적인 그의 행동이 본사에서 내려온 '인사조사단'에게 오히려 좋게 평가되고 설상가상으로 그의 행동은 더욱 대담해지는데...
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Emergency medicine intern Margaux can no longer stand it. During another very hectic and patient-filled shift, she forgets a homeless woman on a stretcher who then dies. Shocked Margaux has no choice but to continue working. But suddenly, her body starts sweating blood uncontrollably.
It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why?
Le Mirage is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" becomes the band-aid to a meaningless existence. Stuff fills the void of the existence we weren't meant to lead.
As a freelance illustrator and perfectionist, Maya’s life is fun fun fun, but also busy busy busy. She perfectly pulls through her work assignments and social activities, thanks to a supportive ‘inner voice’ whom she affectionately calls her ‘Little Motivator’. But when Maya suddenly gets a full-on panic attack and has to slow down for a while, her deepest fear becomes reality: she can no longer be perfect… Maya and her Little Motivator set out to get her back on track ASAP, while struggling to accept that ‘good enough’ might just really be good enough.
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has burned out and who holds up her own despair – and her attempts to rebuild her life – as a mirror to the rest of us. With a blend of gravity and humour, Sylvie Groulx's film shows the absurdity of a society dedicated to the cult of speed at all costs.
Recorded live on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York. Live footage and interviews with Slayer, Venom & Exodus. Venom's live clips are from other videos because Mantas had chickenpox.
A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.
A young woman, stressed by her busy and continually crowded New York City existence spontaneously retreats to a solitary lake deep in the Adirondacks.
A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
These days, employees find themselves under enormous pressure. Disorders such as burn-out and depression are not uncommon. A manager, a mediation coach and a quantum physicist offer their approaches to counteract this trend.
It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie questions work as our 'hallow' sense in life in a way that both humors and pains us.
In returning to their old ballet school burnt-out dancer – Sylvie - explores their past in order to decide what to do with their future.
An assistant will do anything to get his presentation in front of his boss… even set himself on fire.
Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. Creative documentary The Happy Worker will show how we got to this point and the very human behavior that led us here. We want to show how this unhealthy system is maintained and what keeps us from calling bullshit.