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      American Job

      1996 1h 30m Comedy List
      Reviews A boring guy (Randy Russell) toils at boring jobs in a boring Midwestern town. Read More Read Less

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      Todd McCarthy Variety Intended as a deadpan, grimly comic look at the bleakness of a minimum-wage life, American Job excessively straightjackets itself dramatically and thematically to push beyond superficial observations Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Director Chris Smith manages to situate the film within a mixture of tones -- it is simultaneously deadpan, stark, weird, realistic, provocative, and funny. Rated: 3.5/5 Feb 2, 2021 Full Review A.S. Hamrah n+1 Non-professional actors make up the rest of the cast, picked because they had experience as hourlies or managers in the film's workplace settings. Uniformly excellent, they help Smith blur the line between shambling indie and vérité documentary... Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A boring guy (Randy Russell) toils at boring jobs in a boring Midwestern town.
      Director
      Chris Smith
      Screenwriter
      Doug Ruschaupt, Randy Russell, Chris Smith
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 30m