Horrible Bosses
2011
**
Director: Seth Gordon
Cast: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx
Nick, Dale and Kurt are three friends who enjoy their jobs but loathe their bosses, who include a sadistic bully, a predatory nymphomaniac and an obnoxious cokehead. This comedy starts off as an Office Space-like workplace satire, and the opening 30 minutes include some genuine laughs. When the trio decides to emulate Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train by killing each other's bosses, it all falls apart. The film abandons the grown-up audience and targets its lazy plotting and filthy humour at teenage boys. The story does feature four female parts, though; there are two sexy and horny babes, a chaste off-screen girlfriend, and a fat woman. The three men, incidentally, live an oddly gynophobic and self-contained existence, where they only have their jobs and each other. Followed by a 2014 sequel.
