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SPOILER. I watched Bartleby (2001) 2000-2009. I enjoyed it a lot, actually. (Apologies for the long-ass post ahead of time). I just finished the movie, having found the whole thing uploaded to Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez6LmQtcNMY ), so I'm still kind of digesting it all, but overall- I'd say that was great.
May 24, 2002 · “Bartleby” is short for a feature film, at 82 minutes, but might have been more successful at 50 or 60 minutes. Too bad there seems to be an unbreakable rule against features that short, or short subjects that long.
Bartleby is a 2001 American comedy-drama film adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener". The film was directed by Jonathan Parker, and stars Crispin Glover as Bartleby, and David Paymer as his boss. The film diverges from Melville's story, setting it in a modern office and adding sitcom-style humor, but maintaining ...
Bartleby is one of the wittiest, enthralling movies I have seen. I never even heard of this release, but I had to see Crispin Glover in action. Plus, the whole cast works wonders in this one.
Bartleby: Directed by Jonathan Parker. With David Paymer, Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin. A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Jonathan Parker
- 2001-03-10
Sep 10, 2012 · Herman Melville's 1853 short story Bartleby is an absurdist horror comedy about a clerk who declines to participate in work, to the metaphysical consternation of his boss, the story's narrator.
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May 24, 2002 · Although closer in tone to "Office Space" than Herman Melville, Jonathan Parker's absurdist update of Bartleby is surprisingly faithful to the spirit, if not the letter, of the "Moby-Dick" author's 1853 novella about an under-achieving Wall Street copy clerk.
