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Waydowntown
2002 · Film · 84 min
Directed by Gary Burns
Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.
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When this topic comes up I always think of this movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
There's even a movie about it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
Waydowntown (2000)
A group of young employees bet a month's salary, winner takes all, on who can last the longest without going outside.
No one has mentioned Calgary's inter-office skyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_15
10 miles/16 km.
I've actually never been, but saw it featured in a CanCon movie, waydowntown, where a group of office workers wage a month's salary as to who can stay inside the longest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
Don't forget Calgary, AB and this film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
If that sounds fabulous, you would like watching Waydowntown, about a group of young professionals who make a wager on who can live inside the connected mall+office+apartment complex without going outside the longest.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
Waydowntown (2000)
> The film centres on a group of office colleagues in downtown Calgary, Alberta, who bet a month's salary on who can last the longest without going outside by using the system of covered walkways that connect the buildings. The film takes place over one lunch hour on day 28 of the month-long competition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
Reminds me of a Canadian movie:
> The world of interconnected office buildings, apartment complexes and food courts (shot in all its fluorescent glory on digital video) is the backdrop for "Waydowntown," where young office workers Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt, have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest. It's lunch hour on day 24 of the wager and everyone's pretty much reached their breaking point.
https://imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
> The next obvious step is to bundle it with office space
That's partly the plot of the Canadian film, Waydowntown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
You may enjoy Waydowntown :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
Calgary too. There was an entire movie made that centers around a group of workers who make a bet for who can go the longest without ever going outdoors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waydowntown
Have you seen Waydowntown [0]? It's a movie about the malaise of living entirely indoors in a non-human-scale city (Calgary.) You might like it if you haven't already seen it!
[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219405/
1. Ghost in the Shell 2. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex - series not a movie 3. Primer 4. Zizek The Movie 5. Pi 6. Gattaca 7. Waydowntown