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Clockwatchers

1997 · 96 min

A quiet, wry office comedy that slowly curdles into loneliness, watching small humiliations and fragile friendships drift apart with understated sadness.

Tagline
Waiting for your life to change... can be a full time job.
Overview
Four female temps working for a credit company find their friendship threatened by the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.

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  • Amazon Prime Video
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • friendship
  • isolation
  • class
  • identity
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Jill Sprecher
Written by
Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher
Starring
Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach, Helen FitzGerald, Stanley DeSantis, Jamie Kennedy, David James Elliott
Music
Mader
Cinematography
Jim Denault
Runtime
96 min
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
English

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