Canada 2015 83m Directed by: Jennifer Liao. Starring: Mark O'Brien, Paulino Nunes, Carolyne Maraghi, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Janet Porter, Anna Ferguson, Yulia Petrauskas, Mark Robinson, Luis Fernandes, John Watson, Julie Lemieux, Karen Glave, Marty Moreau. Music by: Maria Molinari, Rohan Staton.
It's the last day of business before Godfrey Global Inventory shuts down for good, and the enigmatic Mr. Godfrey and his officious sister Esther invite the company's downtrodden staff to a farewell party where they are to receive their final paycheques. Instead, they are bribed into working one last night, wherein they discover that processing the last of their "inventory" will lead to cataclysmic consequences.
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A group of workers mindlessly process computer punch cards at Godfrey Global Inventory. The company owners announce the closing of the company. They are throwing a company party where they will hand out everybody's final paychecks. It's an odd party where the workers are asked to work one more night for a big pay day.
It's an intriguing premise but it raises questions that the movie never truly answers. These people seem to exist in purgatory or at least, they should not be living in the real world. The fact that they are in the real world presents a few problems. It makes the world unreal and the people exceedingly clueless. The workers need to do some better thinking since it becomes obvious what the premise is quite early in the movie. Also it seems unlikely that they haven't dropped the punch cards before. What if they spilled coffee on the cards? The premise is great but the script needs a few more passes. The workers should be in purgatory and they realize it only after Mort's death.
Review by SnoopyStyle from the Internet Movie Database.