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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 12228
Released: January 4, 2005 |
| Our Price: $1.99 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
LIFE FOR DAVID WALSH IS GOING EXCEPTIONALLY WELL, UNTIL THINGSTAKE AN UNEXPECTED TURN. IN ONE DAY HIS FIANCEE DUMPS HIM & THE BANK BOSS FIRES HIM. TO TOP IT OFF, DAVID TRIES TO LEAVE WORK BUT GETS CAUGHT IN A BANK ROBBERY. AND THE DAY FROM HELL IS FAR FROM OVER.
Employee of the Month Reviews:
A beau show (not a chic flick) 
2009-12-09 - Don't show this movie to your new girlfriend --- she won't like it. This is definitely a movie for you and guys.
This movie was hilarious, from guy's perspective. The protagonist and the narrator loves his fiancé, loves his job but there's something dark about him. There is a part of him nobody knows but his friends, especially his "best friend" who is not too bright and hated by his fiancé and her friends. Does that sound familiar? Hey, that alone will get you in trouble with your girlfriend --- don't think and especially, don't say it.
This movie will suck you in, turn you around a few times and leave you laughing. Look for the surprise ending. All good movies are a mystery. You'll definitely be talking about this movie at the water cooler with your friends. Keep your domestic tranquility, keep it to yourself. Just like the Fight Club, women won't understand and what they don't understand they criticize.
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Intriguing till the end 
2009-09-19 - There's a reason why movies like this end up in the bargain bin: bad endings. What had me hooked turned into an implausible how-could-that-possibly-happen? Too many twists = a throwaway ending.
I dug Steve Zahn's performance. And Matt Dillon was in his usual form - playing a cryptic yet down-to-earth guy who loses his job. What was a fascinating character study turned into a farce, with unintentional results. Yes, there are shades of the Coen brothers, but they do this dark comedy stuff far better.
there is no dane cook
2008-09-27 - the only problem with this movie is the fact that it shares the same name with a dane cook movie. this movie is great the other one not so great. acting great, plot great, its just a amazing underground movie that no one has ever heard of.
Was this Steve Zahn's film?
2008-09-23 - I ask only because he was the one who really made this film funny. Also, the short, but memorable appearance of the gorgeous Jenna Fischer (The Office), as Whisper, the call-girl. Great story line of immorality, deception, misdirection and eventual double-crossing criminals. I kind of sneaks up on you.
Good work by Matt Dillon as David Walsh, the banker with a "Performance Review" bad enough to get him fired. Christina Applegate, as his fiance Sara Goodwin. Andrea Bendewald as Wendy; David's banking co-worker and Sara's Maid-Of-Honor that David's screws, and who ends up screwing David in the end.
But most of all, kudos to Steve Zahn as Jack/Wyatt, who's pilfering of jewelry from corpses of accidents, his outrageous homophobic remarks to David's unlicensed dentist, Eric (Dave Foley - NewsRadio) and his gay friends, and a sexual liaison with an under-age stripper, really put this weird movie over-the-top.
This 16 seeded movie just made the Elight Eight. 
2008-06-16 - Sorry for the corny sports metaphor, but this film is one of the more underrated movies I've seen this year. Employee of the Month, a film that borders along the outskirt territories of film noir and the lowlands of dark comedy, resting somewhere between and finding a new niche as a classic example of why independent films are often the sweetest things since Raquel Welch's thighs.
Our plot seems pretty simple: we have a fast-rising banker named David Walsh (Matt Dillon) losing his job at the hands of an arrogant, bottom-line bank manager who cares little-to-nothing for those who work under him. Walsh then begins a hybrid plan of enacting revenge, but soon it becomes clear to the viewer that nothing is as it seems, wherein all parties are capable of betrayal and murderous ambition.
A very clever film that is funny enough to keep you watching, and intriguing enough to keep you guessing.
4.5 out of 5
