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Swimming with Sharks
1994 · Film · 93 min
Directed by George Huang
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Oh man I’d hate to be on the receiving end of this shit storm. There’s a film called swimming with sharks [1] that perfectly illustrates the wrath of producers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_with_Sharks
Ambiguous rules, ruthlessly enforced. Been there, been done like that.
Swimming With Sharks captures the pathos pretty well, for hollywood. Definitely painful to watch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114594
And Swordfish is a great movie about being a hacker... specifically the common recruiting process.
On a more serious note, I do agree with you. Some decent movies with a office environment/work theme: Boiler Room (2000), Duplicity (2009), Glengarry Glen Ross, Other People's Money (1991), Swimming with Sharks and Wall Street (1987).
I've also enjoyed the dramatized real-life stories in Rogue Trader and Barbarians at The Gate.