Thursday Movie Picks: Work Place Movies

It’s another Thursday which means another week for Thursday Movie Picks, hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves! This week’s theme is about work place movies. When I think of work place I usually think of four walls, paperwork, and all the technical jibber jabber there is in offices. However, a workplace is more than that, so I’m going to go ahead and deviate from that one. Here are my choices this week:

While Mannequin doesn’t seem to be a typical work place movie, most of the movie does have him do work in the department store. An artist who used to construct mannequins for a living, he was hired as a stock boy for the department store where his perfect mannequin was. However, that mannequin was magical as she turns into a woman at night and they both begin to do the window displays of the store, garnering the shop more customers, much to the chagrin of its competitor. This movie was quite silly and weird, but you have to buy into the premise to enjoy the movie. 

A movie that takes place in a school, School of Rock chronicles the life of Dewey Finn and his mission to transform a group of fifth graders into a rock band that he needs to compete in a contest. This was highly enjoyable and Jack Black was good in this. You can’t help but root for their band and performance. 

I’m winging it and putting Gravity on this spot. On a technicality it is a work place movie because Dr. Ryan Stone was hired to go on a mission to place something in space - so space is her work place. It just happens that an unexpected event causes the mission to go awry and we get to watch her try to get back to Earth. 

And for an actual work place movie:

Office Space is the first movie that came to mind, though I think this would have been a popular choice this week. It’s about four guys who are completely fed up with their jobs and decide to do something about it. As comedies go, there is mayhem, but I found this to be really entertaining and funny.