Comedy about a new boss (Parker Posey) who swoops into an underperforming division and takes the film's protagonist (Eric Mabius) under her wing and makes him over from drone to executive. Posey is hardly credible as an executive, but is funny nonetheless. Writer/director Michael Walker effectively captures the fake enthusiasm and forced camaraderie inflicted on office workers by bosses making more than double their salaries, and what an unfulfilling job can do to someone's psyche. The trouble is Walker doesn't seem to know where to go from there. Somewhere near the end, the film has a jarring jump to "Six Months Later" during which it appears many things happened. These are not shown, explained, or accounted for...it reeks of lazy writing. It goes beyond not knowing how to end a story, it seems like everyone just got sick of filming and wanted to go home.
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