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Soundtrack

Office Space: Motion Picture soundtrack Soundtrack by various artists Released Genre Length Label

1999

Hip hop, Rap

44:35

Interscope

Plot

The film is centered around a group of employees at Initech, a typical faceless software company, which is plagued by excessive management and the everyday annoyance of office work in a cube farm setting. Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a disgruntled programmer who spends his days "staring at (his) desk" instead of reprogramming bank software for the Y2K disaster. His co-workers include Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu), whose last name cannot be pronounced correctly by anybody else; Michael Bolton (David Herman), who detests having the same name as a real-life singer whom he hates; and Milton Waddams (Stephen Root), a meek, fixated collator who constantly mumbles to himself. All four are repeatedly bullied by management, especially Initech's callous vice president, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). The staff are agitated by the arrival of two consultants informally known as "The Bobs" (John C. McGinley and Paul Willson), who are brought in to help with cutting expenses, mainly through downsizing.

Peter is depressed, bored and pushed around at work. He attends an occupational hypnotherapy session urged upon him by his girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth). The obese occupational hypnotherapist, Dr. Swanson (Mike McShane), suddenly dies of a heart attack before he can snap Peter out of a state of complete relaxation. The newly relaxed and still half-hypnotized Peter wakes up the next morning and ignores continued calls from Anne (who leaves him) and Lumbergh (who was expecting Peter to work over the weekend). Peter announces that he will simply not go to work anymore, instead pursuing his lifelong dream of "doing nothing," and asks out Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), a waitress who shares Peter's loathing of idiotic management.

Despite Peter's poor attendance record and laziness at work, he is promoted by the Bobs while Michael and Samir are fired. To exact revenge on Initech, the three friends decide to infect the accounting system with a computer virus, designed to divert fractions of pennies into a bank account they control (see salami slicing). A misplaced decimal point causes the virus to steal over $300,000 in the first few days, a far more conspicuous loss to Initech. After a crisis of conscience, Peter writes a letter in which he takes all the blame for the crime, then slips an envelope containing the letter and the money in unsigned Traveler's checks under the door of Lumbergh's office when he is not there, expecting to be arrested soon afterward.

However, all of their problems are solved when Milton snaps after being increasingly ignored and marginalized throughout the film, and sets fire to the Initech office building. Peter finally finds a job that he likes, working in construction with his next-door neighbor Lawrence (Diedrich Bader) and hauling away rubble from the fire. Samir and Michael get jobs at Initrode, a rival company. While cleaning up the debris, Peter finds Milton's favorite red stapler and keeps it, saying that he knows someone who could use it (i.e. Milton).

The very last scene of the film shows that Milton has made his way to a resort in Mexico, living well off the checks he found in Lumbergh's office before setting the building on fire.

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